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Got a management challenge? Win a ticket to see Malcolm Gladwell!
Get management tips from Malcolm Gladwell
Looking to give your management skills and knowledge a boost? Every entrepreneur or start-up business has had their challenges. Use yours to win one of four complimentary tickets to attend The Art of Management conference in Toronto on November 15th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
The conference features five internationally renowned authors and leaders sharing their cutting-edge thinking and real-world experience on how to tackle issues of leadership, strategy, innovation and performance.
- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and The Tipping Point, speaks on “Understanding Success, Decision Making & Trends”
- Michael Eisner, former CEO of Walt Disney, on “Creativity in Leadership & Partnerships”
- Simon Sinek, Columbia University Professor & best-selling author on “Inspiring Performance”
- Nilofer Merchant, CEO & Chief Strategist of Rubicon, on “Collaboration & Strategy”
- Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and best-selling author of Six Pixels of Separation on “Managing in a Connected World”
Want to win a ticket?
Tell us in 200 words or less what your biggest management challenge has been as an entrepreneur and how you solved it. Submit your story to kdamen (at) marsdd.com by October 8th, 2010. The best submissions may be published on the blog in the future and their authors will win tickets to this great event. So go ahead and tell us what management challenges you are facing and how you are tackling them. Your story could help a fellow entrepreneur.
Or, if you can’t wait to find out if you’ve won a ticket, use the promo code LD27 when registering to receive a $50 discount per ticket for one or two tickets or a $100 discount per ticket for any number of tickets over three.
More management tips
Interested in learning more about the specific management challenges entrepreneurs face managing a growing enterprise? Check out:
- “Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale” by John Hamm, Harvard Business Review, Dec 2002. In this article, John Hamm identifies why founders flounder via four management tendencies that work well for small company entrepreneurs but which can become Achilles’ heels as those individuals try to run larger organizations. Read our summary of this important article here.
- “The Founder’s Dilemma” by Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business Review, Feb 2008. This article examines the choice entrepreneurs must make between money and power and discusses how superior returns can come from replacing the founder with a professional CEO more experienced with dealing with the needs of a growing company. Read our summary here.
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Keri Damen @ MaRS
Keri builds and manages live and online education for entrepreneurs at MaRS. She’s worked in education and multimedia and for organizations dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship in Europe and Canada.
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