Many people and organizations consider innovation so difficult that they are too intimidated even to try. We hardly notice when uninnovative businesses go under. We’re bored with them and no longer care. Think Kodak or all the restaurants that shutter…
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During the 2008 worldwide financial meltdown, Rahm Emanuel famously said, “Never allow a crisis go to waste.” Last month on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” the former Chicago mayor repeated the remark in reference to Covid-19 and added, “Start planning for the…
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The coronavirus pandemic will test every startup leader, and their performance will be graded by those they lead. Should the leader falter, that judgment is likely to be unsparingly harsh. The test couldn’t be harder: the future is unknowable and the crisis…
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“It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness.” So warned Dr. Nancy Messonnier, of the Centers…
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I frequently get asked the question: How can you make a good startup culture when you can’t even describe what a culture is, let alone measure it? Almost all of literature explores the question of, “what is a good person?”…
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Hear me out. Yes, I teach entrepreneurship at Princeton and it’s not uncommon for professors to see their discipline as the one indispensable part of the curriculum. But I don’t think I’m engaging in special pleading when I say that…
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The notion of the “alpha” personality, identified long ago by experts in animal behavior, remains a useful term for a human type that is all too familiar: an unusually assertive, aggressive person with a strong need to dominate a group.…
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Survey an underperforming team to understand what’s wrong and you’re likely to find that it’s “communications.” Ineffective leaders are often poor communicators. And when they try to fix the problem their instincts often take them in the wrong direction. Instead…
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The word entrepreneur is used so often in so many different contexts these days that pinning it down is virtually impossible. Everyone has their own definition, and the one you adopt—or unconsciously accept—can determine your aspirations, dictate your behavior, and…
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Want to know which of your teen-agers might grow up to become a successful entrepreneur? Look at their SAT scores and their rap sheets. That’s the implication of some widely discussed research published three years ago in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one…
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