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Expert Interview Series: Roddy Millar Helps Business Leaders Translate Academic Research to Innovative Leadership

IdeaScale

Alternatively, if your brain makes the call that it’s a really bad situation, it pumps blood away from your brain and legs so you can run jolly fast,” Millar said. Millar’s gleaned plenty of useful information in his years of studying research and advising organizations on the best resources for developing leaders.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.