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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Efficiency over innovation.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., 20 th century Management Tools for Execution In the 20 th century business schools and consulting firms developed an amazing management stack to assist companies to execute. StageGate Process.

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Entrepreneurship and Youth Go Hand-in-Hand

Growthink Blog

Younger workers – the so-called Millenials or those born after 1982 - with all of their creative talent and intellectual savvy, and all of their flightiness and senses of entitlement - offer unique challenges and opportunities for 21st Century managers seeking to build well-functioning teams that work and win together.

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What Successful Investors Teach Us About Investing In Startups

YoungUpstarts

Launching a business often involves dips in revenue, and a startup will only survive if it can manage expenses during this fragile time. Salaries are one item on a company’s balance sheet that catches the attention of some investors. Investors Look at Salaries.

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Positive, Immediate, Close, Specific, and Shared

Growthink Blog

The most thoughtful ones came back and said, “well that style maybe all well and good if you are running a factory in China, but when it comes to managing younger people (i.e. Points well-taken, so do let me offer here five "Managing Milllenials" best practices: #5. Revel in the Importance of Company Culture.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

This includes start up funding (our first balance sheet had less than $10,000, today we are over $5 million), branding and market positioning (in 2016 we became EALgreen to emphasize the positive environmental impact of our business), and digital innovation (in 2021 we invested in best-in class, integrated technology platform to track donations).

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Millennials: Less Agony, More Ecstasy

Growthink Blog

Younger workers, the so-called Millennials or those born after 1982, offer unique challenges and opportunities for 21st Century managers seeking to build well-functioning teams that work and win together. The best managers REVEL in this challenge as opposed to shirking from it or whining about it. #4. Here are five best practices: #5.