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Harvard Business Review on Inspiring & Executing Innovation
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Harvard Business Review on Inspiring & Executing Innovation

by Harvard Business Review
May 2011
Beginner
272 pages
4h 40m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Discipline of Innovation

by Peter F. Drucker

DESPITE MUCH DISCUSSION THESE days of the “entrepreneurial personality,” few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the past 30 years had such personalities. But I have known many people—salespeople, surgeons, journalists, scholars, even musicians—who did have them without being the least bit entrepreneurial. What all the successful entrepreneurs I have met have in common is not a certain kind of personality but a commitment to the systematic practice of innovation.

Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship, whether in an existing business, a public service institution, or a new venture started by a lone individual in the family kitchen. It is the means by which the entrepreneur ...

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ISBN: 9781422172131