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April 27, 2018

Podcast Interview: Denise Griffitts – Your Partner In Success!

Will you achieve some combination of fortune, fame, and control over your life – or will your dream end in a nightmare? Bestselling author Derek Lidow has long demonstrated the rare ability to operate successfully in corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic environments. He is an experienced and successful global CEO, a researcher, an innovator, and a startup coach.

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April 19, 2018

Podcast Interview: The Worklife Hub

Derek Lidow is an experienced and outstanding global CEO. He has long demonstrated the sparse competence to operate thrivingly in entrepreneurial, corporate and startup environments. In this podcast the former entrepreneur provides us with great advice on key leadership skills that new companies need for permanent success.

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April 17, 2018

Interview with Diane Helbig: How To Succeed As An Entrepreneur And Build A Valuable Business

Join me for a conversation with Derek Lidow when he’ll share what he’s learned through research and observation. Derek is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS. He has written two books on entrepreneurship, the latest being Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

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April 10, 2018

ARTRPRNR Guest Post: What Is An Entrepreneur?

It’s embarrassing. We, the people who claim to be experts on entrepreneurship, cannot agree on the definition of who really counts as an entrepreneur. Why does your definition of entrepreneur matter? Because it influences the decisions you make and affects the outcomes you achieve. If you adopt the wrong definition of anything you value highly you can go badly astray. Entrepreneurs who lack a clear definition of what they’re doing make inconsistent decisions, wasting time and money, and risk the needless destruction of their businesses.

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April 5, 2018

Peak Performers Podcast | The Difference Between High-Risk and Bedrock Entrepreneurs | Part 3 of 3 | Episode #520

Bestselling author Derek Lidow has long demonstrated the rare ability to operate successfully in corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic environments. He is an experienced and successful global CEO, a researcher, an innovator, and a startup coach. Derek’s contributions include a number of value chain applications that have forever improved companies as diverse as Sony, Samsung, Philips, Goldman Sachs and IBM. His accomplishments include founding iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which Derek sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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April 5, 2018

Peak Performers Podcast | The 3 Types of Relationships | Part 2 of 3 | Episode #518

Bestselling author Derek Lidow has long demonstrated the rare ability to operate successfully in corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic environments. He is an experienced and successful global CEO, a researcher, an innovator, and a startup coach. Derek’s contributions include a number of value chain applications that have forever improved companies as diverse as Sony, Samsung, Philips, Goldman Sachs and IBM. His accomplishments include founding iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which Derek sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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April 5, 2018

Peak Performers Podcast | The 5 Skills of Start-Up Leaders | Part 1 of 3 | Episode #514

Bestselling author Derek Lidow has long demonstrated the rare ability to operate successfully in corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic environments. He is an experienced and successful global CEO, a researcher, an innovator, and a startup coach. Derek’s contributions include a number of value chain applications that have forever improved companies as diverse as Sony, Samsung, Philips, Goldman Sachs and IBM. His accomplishments include founding iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which Derek sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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April 2, 2018

CEO Series: Derek Lidow – Building on Bedrock

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 6 - 7:30 p.m. We all dream to some extent about achieving some combination of the fortune, fame, and control over our lives we associate with successful entrepreneurs. Those are admirable aspirations in a society that counts on entrepreneurs to innovate, create new jobs, and to grow our economy. Our work-driven culture encourages us to take the entrepreneurial bait, but how can you know whether being an entrepreneur will end as a dream come true or a nightmare from which you cannot awake?

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March 31, 2018

Reading and Book Signing at Walmart Museum

BENTONVILLE -- Northwest Arkansas wouldn't be what it is today if Sam Walton's vision didn't extend beyond his retail company, a group of panelists discussed Thursday in the Walmart Museum. The panel was part of the museum's Centennial Celebration of what would have been Walton's 100th birthday. Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club, was born in Kingfisher, Okla., on March 29, 1918. He died April 5, 1992.

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