Geoffrey James (Inc.) sums up what he learned from interviewing highly successful CEOs: business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield; a company is a community, not a machine; management is service, not control; employees are peers, not children; motivation comes from vision, not fear; change means growth, not pain; technology empowers rather than automates; and work should be fun.
Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.
Short essays by email for people who launch new ventures inside large companies: testing ideas with customers, winning over leadership, using AI without the hype. Plus first invitations to Lead Innovation Day.