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The Leader as a Venture Capitalist

Kevin Eikenberry

He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider what venture capitalists do. Reply Kevin Eikenberry October 6, 2010 at 7:37 pm You are most welcome Robin. The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Where does that leave us as leaders?

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Eliciting Excellence – An Online Leadership and Learning Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry

Consider it a great personal development opportunity and an economical way to provide leadership training in your organization (or to supplement the leadership development activities you already have in place). And no specific time to log or tune in because you’ll have access to each expert interview for a full 24 hours.

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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

by Kevin Eikenberry on October 8, 2010 in Achievement , Learning The idea for this post comes with a tip of the hat to a high school friend, Jerry Gray, reconnected with first online. Tagged as: reading { 6 comments… read them below or add one } Carletta October 8, 2010 at 9:35 am Excellent! It was implied but not stated.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010. Consider Medtronic's innovative effort Healthy Heart for All.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop.