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Meaningful Work Beats Over-the-Top Perks Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I I described the creation of the Netflix culture in a 2014 HBR article.)

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. Career planning Managing yourself' So what place does vision have in the midst of disruption? Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Further, Nike was ranked the #7 most innovative company by Fast Company in 2014 , and the 13 th most admired company by Forbes magazine. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

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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. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014. “You are crazy.”