The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
September 30, 2014
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
Read moreThe Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
Read moreMindset: The New Psychology of Success
June 30, 2016
by Carol S. Dweck After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those…
Read moreThe Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
September 30, 2014
by Steve Blank & Bob Dorf More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on The Startup Owner’s Manual for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, acknowledged catalyst of the “Lean Startup” movement, and tested and refined by him for more than a decade. Buy the book here.
Read moreRedefining Entrepreneurship Recorded Webinar
September 22, 2014
In this two-part webinar, ELI founder and course creator Gary Schoeniger offers compelling insight and a new approach that is redefining how entrepreneurship is being taught in classrooms and communities around the world.
Read moreInternational Development Initiatives
A number of ELI’s Community College partners have expressed an interest in taking their entrepreneurial leadership abroad. ELI has tentative plans to work with Highline College and Hillsborough Community College to run pilots in Belize, South Africa, Indonesia and Egypt.
Read moreNon-credit/Certificate Programs
Highline College (HC) in Des Moines, WA was also an early adopter of Ice House. HC has 8 certified Ice House Facilitators.
Read moreQuick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on how to Create a Culture of Innovation
by Adam Bryant In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up workplace, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have share offer useful insights and strategies for…
Read moreSmall Business Development Centers
In early 2014 the California Community Colleges Economic & Workforce Development system launched Operation Entrepreneurship, providing 500 student veterans the opportunity to take a compressed boot camp version of Ice House at SBDC’s across the state.
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