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Have a Dream

Create an inspiring entrepreneurial vision    >>>

Focus on your core competences and competitive advantage  >>>

Develop a vision-focused innovation strategy  >>>

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Inspire Your Team

Communicate your strategic intent and launch a crusade  >>>

Create an inspiring culture , make business fun 

Inspire, empower, and energize people

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Focus on Customers

Strive to create → innovative value for your customers.

Practice customer-driven innovation to create customers  >>>

Involve customers in your new product development process  >>>

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Be Different

→ Surprise to win , think outside the box  >>>

Strive to change the name of the game – introduce radical innovations  >>>

Differentiate yourself and your product      >>>

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Question Everything

Challenge assumptions, ask "Why?" and "What If?" questions constantly

Ask a lot of searching questions, create a culture of questioning 

→ Question and reassess past decisions

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Synergize

Approach innovation → holistically ; build your cross-functional expertise and systems thinking skills  >>>

Build and leada passionate and synergistic cross-functional team  >>>

Cross-pollinate ideas, leverage diversity, create synergies  >>>

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Establish the Process

Provide strategic alignment and guiding principles    >>>

Design a business model; establish rules, structure, and a measuring system  >>>

Encourage jazz-like improvisation within a guiding structure  >>> 

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Take Risk

Take → entrepreneurial → action – nothing venture, nothing win  >>>

Experiment and learn from market feedback    >>>

Learn from failures to start again smarter  >>>

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Lead Change

Create a mindset of creative dissatisfaction to reduce resistance to change  >>>

Lead by example, demonstrate venturepreneurial leadership attributes and → Can-Do attitude >>>

Adapt to rapid internal and external change, create positive change  >>>

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Be Entrepreneurial

Develop and practice entrepreneurial creativity daily, → learn continually  >>>

Search for entrepreneurial opportunities always and everywhere , know how to discover and pursue them – with speed  >>>

Be persistent, overcome obstacles, → solve problems creatively and turn problems to opportunities; trust your first thought, → intuition, and  → subconscious mind  >>>