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You might need a Company Culture VP

In the past year or so, with so many media scandals about various company culture dysfunctions, many other corporate cultures being dissected, [https://biteable.com/blog/inspiration/company-culture-videos/]scrutinised and analysed, and the many advice published online, it seems about time to hire Company Culture VPs to ensure the culture

Most venture capital firms fail

Most venture capital firms fail because they aim for smart and don’t manage a portfolio big enough. This is what corporate need also to learn when playing with startups. If you seek breakthrough innovation it will catch you by surprise, not with selected smart business plans. [https://500hats.com/

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How to deal with startup fever in your company, part 1

While the first wave of the digital revolution is now well over, most corporations are victims of some level of rude awakening. Surprisingly enough for me, the sovereign cure for their lack of strategic vision has been isolated: startups. As it seems, six-month-old post-internet companies without cash-flow are deemed better

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Building corporate incubation with Monty Hall

A few days ago, I was discussing how wrapping your head around the Monty Hall problem could help you better understand the importance of failure in innovation. If you take it a step further today, we could argue that most corporate incubation programs should be build around this probabilistic calculation.

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35 Ways self-driving vehicles are happening before 2020

The key argument of doubters on how fast the self-driving vehicles will go live is risk and the social acceptability (or the lack thereof) of deaths from vehicles making choices on their own. Truth to be told, yes, social acceptability is a steep barrier to entry for adopting technologies at

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Dealing with failure in innovation and the Monty Hall problem

Innovation literature is flooded with various arguments on why and how you should take risk as a company. As someone who’s depending on the success of the companies I work with (sometimes I even presume much more than their own management), I can’t avoid being one of these