Business Ideas Going to Waste
MBAs have 100 bright ideas but no time to develop them The smartest business brains have 100 bright ideas every year, but no time to turn their eureka moments into a commercial reality. That’s according to a survey of 4,500 MBAs and business professionals from the UK and around the world who are slaves to their Blackberrys rather than their brainchildren. 62% of those polled by MBA & Company say they have 100 great business ideas a year but half of those don’t follow them up because they are too busy. The majority (59%) admit to never switching off their smartphones, with 1 in 3 constantly monitoring their emails and working at weekends. “It’s quite a sad state of affairs when the cream of business brains don’t have the time to let their ideas free,” says Daniel Callaghan, ... »