Tag Archives: Entrepreneurship

Book Review: Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles

There are 3 main challenges in scaling up a business once you get past the start up stage: 1) Growing the capabilities of the leadership team 2) Installing a scalable infrastructure to manage the complexities that keep increasing with growth … Continue reading

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Book Review: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Authors: John Bessant and Joe Tidd The authors who are experienced academicians have written this book to provide an accessible and highly structured introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship for students of business and management. They have reviewed and synthesized the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Business Genius

Author: Peter Fisk As business professionals most of the times we endlessly focus on getting , analyzing and reporting data. We rarely rely on our own intuition, insights and imagination. According to the author Peter Fisk, a highly experienced business strategist … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Lean Startup

Startups operate in an uncertain and dynamically changing environment. Most of them fail. This is because the entrepreneurs  initiate and manage them either in a conventional (rigorous and time consuming upfront market research, planning, strategizing) manner or  in an adhoc … Continue reading

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Book Review : Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Social entrepreneurship is a business oriented approach towards building and running an  organization devoted to a social cause.  Best practices of the business world like reporting of results, measuring the return on investments, minimizing the overheads and waste, and continuous … Continue reading

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