Today, eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe announced that he has hired a new leader for PayPal, Dan Schulman, and that the company will separate its PayPal and eBay payments and commerce businesses into standalone enterprises in the second of 2015 (Read the announcement here). This is a strong decision by John and eBay’s board: It opens a…
Silicon Valley is the best place in the world for adaptation and innovation, as demonstrated by its economic growth over the past decade. If you want your organization to be able to survive and thrive in an environment where change is rapid and disruptive innovation rampant, you need to develop the adaptability that is the…
As I suggested in my first book, The Start-up of You, all humans are entrepreneurs. Our natural inclination to create, adapt and collaborate – all hallmarks of entrepreneurship – are in large part what define us as a species. But as much as entrepreneurship is innate, it’s also a mindset and set of practices that can…