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In “ It’s Alive,” authors Chris Meyer of Monitor Networks and Stan Davis of Monitor Talent make the argument:

 Business leaders face an imperative to create organizations that can adapt continually and rapidly, to keep pace with shifts in their markets, technologies, and society itself.          

Now first of all, any company that has dedicated units devoted to networks and talent has my vote.  

And it seems to me that organizations which can continuously adapt to change over the long-haul, especially mid-size companies, must know how to find entrepreneurial talent, empower them, and then NOT spend too much time or money giving them opportunities to prove new directions.  

This is essentially the philosophy of Team upStart:  1) Focus on talent; 2) Never give a team more than 10 weeks to prove a new business; 3) Form teams as proto-companies, mentor them, but let them run themselves.