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Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future
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Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future

by Leonard Schlesinger, Charles Kiefer, Paul Brown
March 2012
Beginner
224 pages
4h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Using Creaction with Families and Friends

You can use Creaction outside of work to get things done. When you help family and friends to use Creaction, you will play one of two roles, as an actor or as a supporter.

THE FOCUS until now has been on you, making sure you understand the logic that governs Creaction and how you can use it in beginning your new venture. But as we have shown throughout, starting a new business is not the only place you can apply Creaction. The same approach, principles, and logic that will help you start a new venture can also be used everywhere else. And everywhere else falls logically into two categories:

  • Within organizations—the subject of the previous chapter.
  • Outside of work, when you involve friends, family, ...
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