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In January I went with a large group of Babson students to Ghana. In the evenings, students meet with individuals who have concerns about their own businesses, most of which are located in a small kiosk, in the market, or on the side of the road. As always, the students find grappling with the everyday…
In Chapter one of The New Entrepreneurial Leader, I wrote, “Entrepreneurs need the skills and the knowledge to define the world rather than be defined by it” (p. 25). The most thought-provoking and still not completely answered question is how do entrepreneurs define the world? I offer a way of thinking called cognitive ambidexterity that…
I do a lot of research and writing on analytics, and like seemingly everyone these days I am looking into the world of “big data.” Yesterday I had an interview with DJ Patil, one of the original “data scientists” (he coined the title!) at LinkedIn and a major guru in the big data world. He’s…
My chapter in The New Entrepreneurial Leader has two main goals. First, to illustrate clear examples where social and environmental issues and the creation of shareholder value go hand-in-hand. These examples show clearly that companies can do good things for the environment and other stakeholders, while at the same time improving the bottom line and impacting their…
Bob Turner, chapter author, The New Entrepreneurial Leader Book www.newleaderbook.com , offers a better sense of the practical role accounting can play in delivering value creation beyond economic profit and loss.
Nan Langowitz, chapter author, The New Entrepreneurial Leader Book (www.newleaderbook.com) , discusses the importance of self-awareness in shaping entrepreneurial leaders and building their unique competencies.
I left Riyadh just in time to avoid the flooding there, and am now in Jeddah on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Earlier this week I spoke to an audience of men and women students and faculty at the College of Business Administration (CBA) here in Jeddah. After my talk on business and social…
The release of the GEM 2009 report was much anticipated. The 2008 data was collected in the early summer of that year, before the recession started to dominate the front pages of newspapers across the globe. The 2008 data didn’t show declines in entrepreneurial activity in general across the dataset of 43 countries, although fewer…
Born January 8, 1935 I want us to think about Elvis Presley as many things: but for our own moment it might be most relevant to think of what he taught about creating hybrids, combining seemingly distinct strains of music into a seamless new whole. It is second nature to us now: for all of…
