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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs

Harvard Business Review

We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. Indeed, they can do some things that no organization could do before.