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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.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress. Social awareness: According to Goleman, the competencies associated with being socially aware are Empathy, Organizational Awareness, and Service.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. Perhaps U.S. Consider some examples from the trade agreement arena.