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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. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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Companies That Do Right by Their Workers Start by Elevating Their Definition of Success

Harvard Business Review

They share in big year-end bonuses based on the company’s financial performance, participate in a well-funded pension plan, and enjoy perks that most companies would reserve for their top brass. Just as noteworthy, John Lewis operates as a full-fledged democracy that distributes power up and down the ranks.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

I’ve paid attention to how the best of them operate — how they nurture creativity all around them — and I’ve noticed three things: They build core enthusiast communities inside and outside of their organizations. The company nurtures its creative community and recognizes participation at every level.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. In a pilot study Adam Grant and I conducted, we found that participation in the Reciprocity Ring increases positive emotions and decreases negative emotions.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brand-building is a function that business leaders, owners, and general managers – the people responsible for the culture, core operations, and customer experiences of an organization – must drive. Ultimately, though, the best brand councils operate with the goal of making themselves unnecessary.

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