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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge

Harvard Business Review

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Size inevitability leads to hierarchy, to rigidities in the system, and bureaucracy.

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The 3 Preconditions for an Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

In 1985 Peter Drucker argued for a shift toward an entrepreneurial society, one where “executives in all institutions…make innovation and entrepreneurship a normal, ongoing everyday activity.” Internet technology has essentially democratized entrepreneurialism. To be a taxi driver, you need a car and a GPS.