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competitive breakthroughs, entrepreneurial ventures have demonstrated
a remarkable capacity to invent new paradigms of organization and man-
agement. They have abandoned the organizational practices and struc-
tures typical of the industrial giants from the post–World War II era to
the 1990s. The world needs big problems solved and has relied on entre-
preneurs to find those solutions. Think of Henry Ford, Thomas Watson
(IBM), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sergey Brin and Larry
Page (Google), or Home Depot’s Arthur Blank. Your business may not
ever reach the size of the aforementioned ones (nor may you even have
such aspirations), but you will have a lasting impact on your family and
community. Enjoy the trip.