An expert on second-stage entrepreneurs, Dino Signore has a doctorate in business psychology and is manager of entrepreneurial education at the Edward Lowe Foundation. Signore leads all of the foundation’s learning events, which have been attended by thousands of second-stage business owners and executives as well as leaders of entrepreneur support organizations. He has trained hundreds of facilitators in the foundation’s PeerSpectives…
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Prairie restoration at Big Rock Valley is the video companion to Dan Wyant’s blog of the Edward Lowe Foundation.
A quick look at French and Raven’s classic framework for understanding how people influence each other through six different types of social power.
Going with the flow: a blueprint to greater productivity and happiness is the video companion to the blog by Dino Signore of the Edward Lowe Foundation
How double-loop learning enables your organization to move beyond the mere symptoms of a problem to identify the roots of its origins — along with long-term solutions.
Tribal behavior: the good, the bad and the need for balance is the companion video to the blog by Dino Signore of the Edward Lowe Foundation.
When Ed Lowe died in October 1995 the groundwork had already been laid to ensure that his entrepreneurial legacy would live on. Through his philanthropic activities both with the foundation and elsewhere, he established a template for paying it forward, so that others could benefit from his generosity.
The 1980s saw the reinvention of his original product under the name Tidy Cat 3–a great commercial success that owed a lot to his marketing efforts. Continued product innovations kept his competitors at bay while he started thinking about what the future would hold, specifically the creation of a foundation in his name.
Being number 1 in a number 2 industry was not something that Ed took lightly. Investing heavily in equipment, research, development and marketing, Ed aimed to stay at the top. More patents and trademarks were filed during this time in addition to some other grand ideas that never made it commercially. Ed was never afraid to push the envelope and try things that were hard.