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The Challenge of Retaining Startup Talent After an Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

People are among the most prized assets of many startup companies, so when employees leave after an acquisition, it can be a substantial loss for the acquiring company. Why do so many startup employees leave, and how do startup acquisitions impact their careers?

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

Overview: Companies that fail to innovate can go out of business, yet there are even worse fates that can await them. These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. The Concorde.

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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

So many leaders in companies have no idea what their own products are actually like. While this would seem like the most obvious thing in the world, you would be amazed how many companies do not use their own products, or how many company leaders do not use the products they tell their teams to sell to customers.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. The post Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy appeared first on IdeaScale. Want to set-up a sustainability campaign in IdeaScale?

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4 Things Leaders Must Know About Artificial Intelligence and Automation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee self-published an unassuming e-book titled Race Against The Machine. Norton & Company to publish a full-length version, The Second Machine Age that was an immediate […] It quickly became a runaway hit.

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Optimism Bias

Idea to Value

One of the most cited-assessments of the bias from 2011 gives the following examples: When it comes to predicting what will happen to us tomorrow, next week, or fifty years from now, we overestimate the likelihood of positive events, and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. This is a cognitive bias known as the optimism bias.

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4 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Artificial Intelligence and Automation

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee self-published an unassuming e-book titled Race Against The Machine. Norton & Company to publish a full-length version, The Second Machine Age that was an immediate bestseller. It quickly became a runaway hit. Before long, the two signed a contract with W.