Month: November 2018

How to foster entrepreneurship in a medium sized company

How to foster entrepreneurship in a medium sized company

Qu: How do we foster entrepreneurship and continue to innovate? Ans: By extending “Good to Great” thinking, viz: Jim Collins argues that to go from “Good to Great” a company needs a “Hedgehog Concept” which defines just 3 core values that drive the company’s ‘Economic Engine’ (or – more broadly – its ability to be great at…

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Factfulness

Factfulness

Irrespective of our level of education or area of expertise, our understanding of the world is almost universally 40 years out of date about most things – such as the proportion of people living on each continent, or in extreme poverty; the percentage of 1 year olds who have been vaccinated, or of girls that…

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Selective History

Selective History

I just received this in an email with batch of other Churchill quotes.  I do enjoy a chunk of good thought-provoking quotes. But, as always with Churchill quotes, mixed in with the gold is a large dose of made-up stuff as Brits with a prejudice try to commandeer the “Greatest Ever Briton” to defend their…

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