Entrepreneurship

Innovation capital isn’t something that necessarily comes naturally to anyone with a good idea. Having ideas and building products is one skillset. But being able to build a team, or pool together funding for a project, is something entirely different.

Even though the actual definition of initiative reads as the ability to assess and initiate things independently, it’s actually anything but independent. Initiative always involves and impacts others and like any good leadership characteristic, it works best when certain principles are present.

A set of statistics from Strategyzer suggest that 42% of start-ups fail because they are trying to solve problems – interesting problems – that people don’t care about. Do your metrics support the market need?

Adrian Wooldridge shares his thoughts on innovation, leadership, capitalism, economic lessons that Europe and America can learn from each other, and a lot more. Read Alex's key highlights from this fascinating talk.

Along with Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon are co-authors of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. In this interview, Efosa and Karen reveal the paradox at the heart of existing approaches to solving poverty, and propose a better way forward based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.

Emergn's podcast is for leaders who want to ensure their business is keeping pace in a constantly changing landscape and in a strong position to grow. This season, we’re talking about management: the human dimension.

MVP is one of the terms that seems to generate a lot of traction during an Agile transformation. It seems people are happy about trying to do ‘just enough’ to accomplish a goal. But, for companies with a fixed mindset the term can get quickly abused.