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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. ” It didn’t turn out that way.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. It is the end of you as a leader. About the Author.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Even better.