HIGH-GROWTH FIRMS: FACTS, FICTION, AND POLICY OPTIONS FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES
Denis Medvedev, Arti Grover, and Ellen Olafsen (from World Bank Group) identify, policies to create jobs, promote entrepreneurship and growth are key priorities for many emerging economies. Designing and implementing reforms is particularly challenging as policy makers attempt to strike a balance across sectors, firm size and incentives that can sustain growth in a rapidly changing global economy.
LEADERS, DON’T MAKE THESE 5 MISTAKES
Raising money for your startup isn’t easy for everyone. In fact, early-stage funding is harder to do now than it ever has been, with seed deals dropping by nearly 50 percent, by some estimates, since 2014, with VCs focusing more on pushing capital to later-stage deals.
HOW CEOS MANAGE TIME
CEOs are always on, and there is always more to be done. The leaders in our study worked 9.7 hours per weekday, on average. They also conducted business on 79% of weekend days, putting in an average of 3.9 hours daily, and on 70% of vacation days, averaging 2.4 hours daily.
LEADERSHIP LESSONS LEARNED
Ken Sterling (Executive Vice President and Chief Learning Officer at BigSpeak) shared: “I learned some of my most important lessons in negotiating effectively from my business mentor, an executive from Corning. He was also my grandfather.
