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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. We recommend thinking carefully about leadership assessment. Case-based assessments give us a sneak-peak inside the brain to see how the gears are really operating. This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

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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

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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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

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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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

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” “Venture capitalists are looking for rapid exits and researchers are pretty much stuck with the idea that they came to the party with.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Make the tough calls on people.