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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Author/speaker Jason Seiden just posted a “best of the web&# collection of articles on leadership that includes the post I recently wrote about the CEO of Starbucks. posted at Team Building & Leadership Blog: Create-Learning. posted at Reclaiming Leadership. at Great Leadership. developing social capital.

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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Brands evolve and mature and grow just as we do. I remember the feeling as I looked out at the audience of several hundred sorority members, and they were paying close attention to my guidance about how to build social capital onlineā€¦ and what could land them in a reputation crisis. Photo Credit: Markus Winkler.

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How to Respond When Youā€™re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

And being the last to learn about key decisions can set your team back, and bring your leadership into question. In our work with leadership teams about meeting governance, we coach folks to put the company first by stepping forward to “vote themselves off the island” by opting out of meetings where they wouldn’t add value.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.