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Stéphanie Mitrano

Haarlem

Insightful and open-minded, Stéphanie accompanies organizations in their cultural transformation to support innovation and business agility.

Should Mentors of Entrepeneurs be Trained or their Experience is Enough?

Should Mentors of Entrepreneurs be Trained or their Experience is Enough? [https://www.slideshare.net/merkapt/should-mentors-of-entrepreneurs-be-trained-or-their-experience-is-enough] from INNOVATION COPILOTS [https://www.slideshare.net/merkapt]

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Science against the mentor myth

Forget all your romantic ideas about what a good entrepreneurial mentor is: experienced in entrepreneurship, he/she has started several companies in his/her lifetime, has failed a couple of times and learned from it and succeeded enough time to still be active now. He has mentored several startupers so

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Innovating with motivational fear

In a world where we encourage would-be entrepreneurs to create their own business, to be innovative and create new markets; intrapreneurs to take risks, save the large multinationals with disruptive projects… we expect people to be fearless, to embrace risks, take leaps of faith and go into the unknown. But

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Innovating with purposeful anger

Many people and companies wish to innovate to survive in our fast-evolving world. Often enough the problem is how do we start, where can we get inspiration, what can drive our innovation, entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial spirit. Of course, there is not just one answer to these questions. But one angle

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International women’s day: what’s the point?

On this international Women’s Day, the debates, the initiatives and questions are rekindled about the place of women in the world and in organisations. I’m surprised, angry and sad that organisations are still trying to answer the wrong question: how do we get more women in top positions?

How bad is the good idea of juniors mentoring seniors

For some years now, the practice of “reverse mentoring” – digital natives/juniors mentoring seniors – has been deployed in some large corporations with the aim of getting senior employees and managers up to speed with the digital age. The term "reverse mentoring" has been created to distinguish itself from