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The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

Econic

I used these lessons to get out of my comfort zone as an introvert, achieve success as an athlete, and embrace the fear and anxiety of entrepreneurship. After almost 4 years of learning and applying the lessons of willpower, I created a website and blog. High-quality blog content was read and appreciated by people.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Entrepreneurial thinking is described as one of the most relevant skills for the 21st-century workforce (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie, & Brande, 2016). This white paper has been originally published to the SSRN: Spruijt, Jan, Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurship Can Hardly Be Taught (May 17, 2017).

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2016

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2016 was our fifth full year of operations.

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The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship: Part Two

Econic

In The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship: Part One , I shared how I built a content business focused on the science of willpower—and the toll it began to take on me. Yet, my blog and book audiences simply weren’t big enough and my debt continued to grow. At the same time, it was now 2016 and misinformation abounded.

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Are we doing enough? A blog about education and sustainability

Norbert Bol

In the previous Strategy Blog the importance of education was discussed and I added a poll with the question: “Do you think decision makers educate themselves enough about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship?” ” The majority of the voters indicated that decision makers do not educate themselves enough.

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Wazoku’s Simon Hill attends INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum

Wazoku

Wazoku CEO, Simon Hill, was proud to be a part of this year’s INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum in Madrid. Of particular note, the Financial Times has ranked INSEAD as the #1 MBA programme in the world for two years in a row (2016 & 2017). The post Wazoku’s Simon Hill attends INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum appeared first on Wazoku.

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Penker’s reflections on The Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

It focused on the core of what will create the GDP of tomorrow and the actions to take – entrepreneurship and innovation. Many speakers, including myself , focused, discussed and elaborated upon the prerequisites for innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the lessons learned from the past.