Nurturing Your Entrepreneurial Side
Thoughts from Prof. James Price

In this economy, established organizations are struggling to be more innovative, growth-oriented and relevant to their customers and their employees — in other words, they could benefit from being more entrepreneurial. Understanding and applying start up skills is one way corporate leaders can help accelerate innovation within their organizations.    [Learn more]

In this issue:

• Harnessing the Power of Co-Creation
• Nurturing Your Entrepreneurial Side
• Change at Work
• News
• Upcoming Programs

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Question: "Which parts of your professional development plans are in place?" (choose more than one):

Self development - 72%
Outside training programs – 59%
Special project(s) - 52%
E-learning - 48%
Internal training programs - 45%
Networking - 38%
Mentoring - 34%
Coaching - 31%
360 feedback tools - 24%
Customer Interfacing - 17%
Moving to another job 10%
Shadowing/visiting others - 10%
Expatriate assignment - 7%
Other - 7%

"If you build it, they may come. Build it with them, and they're already there."

Nike Runners Unite

The launch of Nike+, an online community co-created by Nike and its runner fans, has enabled the company to invite its customers directly into the innovation process.

Quicktime Video (5:00) Nike+ Case Study

 Achieving Meaningful Culture Change

Instituting culture change can be challenging. Learn how one company developed its future leaders to improve competencies to manage organizational change with the help of a U-M EE custom program. [Read more]

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Ross Exec Ed presents the last two webinars in our Positive Leadership webinar series in November and December. These events are $75 each and provide practical proven tips for delivering results in your organization:

• Implementing Four Strategies that Lead To Extraordinary Performance
• Strategy from a Strength-Based Perspective

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