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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'”

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Public funders — the various state economic development agencies — don’t care about opportunities in the abstract, either, but about opportunities that create jobs, particularly where unemployment is raging. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.”