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

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Academia Provides a Wealth of Research on Effective Leadership. And it takes sound leadership at the top. Improving how these leaders address and adapt to innovation, has to start well before they go into leadership positions, Millar says. “We By that time it’s too late.”. Launching an innovation initiative can be overwhelming.

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Elon Musk Blows My Mind

CorporateIntel

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. Musk is doing that, which to me looks like real leadership, and it feels good to applaud him. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

Cofounders are crucial. ” Another added, “If you don’t get decisions about potential cofounders right — for example, if your cofounder is not fully committed — it will likely kill your company.” One commented, “No 24-year-old engineer can acquire all of these skills in five years. .”

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Searching for the Reasons Behind Google Labs' Demise

Harvard Business Review

No one who knows him doubts Page's unwavering commitment to the innovation culture of the company he cofounded. But the move undeniably represents a leadership perspective that the Labs might be as much organizational distraction as innovation engine. "Putting more wood behind fewer arrows" is the CEO's prioritization prerogative.

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives.

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

CEOs have shown leadership in presenting these long-term plans; however, to date, we have not had evidence on the capital market consequences that the presentation of a long-term plan may have. ” argument for why a company should deliver a long-term plan.