Insights

Selected writings and perspectives on entrepreneurial thinking and practice

October 21, 2025
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Generativity and the Human Future of Leadership

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Exploring transformative leadership through generativity - the capacity to continuously renew and expand organizational potential.

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November 4, 2024
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A New Age of Generativity

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Organizations must move beyond traditional productivity models to embrace continuous knowledge renewal and generative learning.

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November 8, 2023
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Wellbeing is the Fuel of Creative Resilience

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Organizations should view employees as ecosystem partners rather than resources, nurturing individual ambition and creativity as the fuel of innovation.

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October 14, 2022
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A Fork In The Road

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Organizations must develop nuanced performance measurement that balances short-term efficiency with long-term learning and discovery.

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October 28, 2021
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The human imperative: becoming who we are

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Exploring the evolving relationship between humans and technology, emphasizing unique human capacity for imagination and meaning-making.

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October 20, 2020
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Questions Leaders Must Ask

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Effective leadership requires embracing uncertainty and asking questions rather than seeking certainty, protecting space for curiosity and imagination.

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October 29, 2019
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Thinking for the age of ecosystems

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Entrepreneurial thinking in ecosystem-driven environments: ask not what the ecosystem can do for you, but what you can do for the ecosystem.

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November 7, 2018
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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Co-authored with Joseph Pistrui

Managers must evolve from directive to instructive, restrictive to expansive, and become truly human: people who love to learn and teach.

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November 4, 2022

What is entrepreneurship?

Exploring entrepreneurship as the force of the new, driven by human imagination and ingenuity at the intersection of technology, society, and economy.

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November 4, 2022

What is an opportunity?

Understanding the complex relationship between entrepreneurs and opportunities, and how they are constructed through vision and imagination.

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November 4, 2022

Who is an entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurs are defined by their active efforts to change the world, driven by their visions of a different future.

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November 4, 2022

A teaser

Like the word ladder game, entrepreneurship involves incremental changes and creativity, maintaining connections between past and future meanings.

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October 26, 2017

Sidestepping reason

Exploring how creativity and deviation from conventional reason can be vital conditions for entrepreneurial progress and innovation.

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March 31, 2017

Holding the bag... of uncertainty

Examining how uncertainty and accountability move through organizations, and why uncertainty should be held at the top with commitment.

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