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Focusing On Unicorns Is The Wrong Approach

The Horizons Tracker

Now, as a recent report from the European Innovation Council suggests, the concern has moved from creating to keeping unicorns. There is considerably less coverage given to operational matters, such as growing revenues, an expanding workforce, or indeed any of the numerous matters by which we tend to assess most other businesses. .

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Research Suggests Firms Should Look Externally For New Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

New markets The data implies a lively market for CEOs, enticed by the prospect of elevated remuneration, reduced public scrutiny, and the operational proficiency that private equity (PE) firms offer. The study also noted that there were around 30,000 private equity deals with a total value of $4 trillion between 2016 and 2021.

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation.

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? In short, it works.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail

Harvard Business Review

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models. So how to improve?

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).