Unbreakable: Ten Ways to Build an Antifragile Company


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While global interconnectedness has many benefits, it also creates the risk that events on one side of the world will dramatically and negatively impact companies on the other. This possibility raises the issue of what type of organizational structure and approach has the best ability to thrive in this type of environment. In Nassim Nicholas […]

August 31, 2023

Reinventing the Wheel: How Companies Can Become More Creative


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Particularity when times are challenging, what companies often need the most is an asset that cannot be found on a traditional balance sheet: creativity. While corporations are often not associated with creativity, the track record of businesses in thinking outside of the box is mixed. Some corporations have been responsible for breakthroughs that have completely […]

August 27, 2023

Quiet Quitting and Employee Engagement


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Significant media attention has been given to the phenomenon of “quiet quitting”, the decision by an employee to do the bare minimum required at work. Given the challenges that companies as well as employees have faced during the Covid pandemic, quiet quitting has drawn sharply divergent opinions, with some viewing quiet quitters as slackers with […]

December 6, 2022

Innovation and Fractional Entrepreneurship


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Rather than an integrated process where risk is distributed evenly from beginning to end, innovation is a series of discrete steps whose risk and role in the innovation process can be highly different. Failing to look at parts of the innovation cycle in discrete terms and integrate them with appropriate internal and external resources often […]

May 21, 2022

Intrapreneurship and Shareholder Value Creation


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One possible corporate innovation pathway is intrapreneurship, entrepreneurial activity that is carried out within a firm. As an innovation catalyst, intrapreneurship has many potential advantages, including accelerating firm innovation cycles, reducing entrepreneurial risk and building a firm culture that can generate many positive organizational changes. This article analyzes the potential of intrapreneurship to create shareholder […]

September 3, 2021