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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

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When conducting interviews, be sure to ask for specific examples of each candidate’s ability to act decisively; look for a quick, strategic mind that can develop and implement innovative solutions. Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Communicative.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

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Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. Learn more now. .

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. When Steve left AOL he wanted to be very involved with the next generation of entrepreneurs. Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way.

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5 Entrepreneur Ideas That Investors See Too Often

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Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. There may be room here for something really innovative, but just a better user interface, people prioritized results, or one millisecond faster will probably not do it. What’s your idea?

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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

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He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. The post Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed appeared first on THE BLOG. Many also struggle to build systematic management processes.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand.

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Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite

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In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” The post Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite appeared first on THE BLOG.