If you're in charge of corporate disruptive growth or building new ventures, you've probably come across the term "Growth Advocate". But what does it mean, and why is it important? In our work assisting large global businesses in establishing new ventures and partnerships, we know that the toughest part of corporate venturing is managing the organization. We lovingly call it “the mothership”. Inside the mothership, we’ve identified an essential role that can speed up progress

If your company has started building and investing in ventures and failed, I have good news: your competitors likely flounder for similar reasons. This is the first in a series of articles where I'll dive deep into the common pitfalls of building a growth engine (and how to dodge them). I am what you might call bi-lingual. Not in terms of language, but because I’ve been a founding member of three startups and I’ve also built six new businesses inside large organizations. (I h