by Benedikt | Jul 1, 2016 | Entrepreneurial Mindset, Execution
Reasons Startups Fail: An Integral Perspective Less than 50% of all new companies make it beyond the 5-year mark (see e.g. data for Germany) and they fail due to a wide variety of reasons. We have mapped the insights of two different reports that...
by Benedikt | Dec 20, 2014 | Entrepreneurial Mindset, Execution, Sustainability
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development Holger Patzelt and Dean Shepherd have written an insightful paper on the necessity to know your social and natural surroundings to be better able to recognize opportunities that address a problem within one of the...
by Habib | Sep 19, 2014 | Entrepreneurial Mindset, Execution, Introspection, System Design
Managing on the Edge – 13 Tips for Entrepreneurs Ask any practicing entrepreneur how it is going and chances are, if you catch them in an honest moment, you will either get a really excited or really concerned and stressed answer. Such is the life of the entrepreneur,...
by Habib | Apr 1, 2013 | Entrepreneurial Mindset, Execution, Introspection
New Venture Thinking – From Concept to Reality As Nick Herbert noted in the preface to his excellent book “Quantum Reality — Beyond the New Physics and the Meaning of Reality”: For better or worse, humans have tended to pattern their domestic, social, and...