Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? Reading a variety is fundamental to being a well rounded individual. I currently read one book a week and scan hundreds of articles and tens of journals each month.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

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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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Apart from the website, the BMW Startup Garage team also stays in regular touch with leading venture capitalists and regularly appears at international conferences, as well as hosting their own startup events.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

T REN GRIFFIN, who writes the well-read 25iq blog , has assembled a collection of insights for entrepreneurs from some of the most successful venture capitalists and coaches of business founders in the world. Rich Barton: “It’s much more powerful long-term to make up a new word than it is to use a literal word.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. After retirement, CEOs must grapple with a loss of power, prestige, and immense responsibility. It’s not the plane, nor the power. I developed a lot of comrades over the years, and you don’t see them as much anymore.”

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. It shows up in a love of the details and a culture that makes heroes of those at the front line of the business and gives them power. An example I love is how M.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. Those selected for development have one universal trait in common: They are by definition high achievers. There is powerful evidence (pdf) that narcissists have difficulty forging long-term relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

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. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Her title is the same but her collaborative power has evolved and with it, her company's. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Find out how he or she thinks about leadership and innovation. So how do you branch out?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. Let me add one more easily overlooked point: Western-style consumers have been taught from birth the power of the package.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Taking this into consideration, only five of the 53 award-winning and best selling cases actually describe the leadership of an actual women protagonist – about 9%. in a leadership position (the protagonist). But counting the number of protagonists is only scratching the surface. who speak to each other. Impoverished descriptions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It feels like a treat, witnessing aspiration and insight blend into leadership to create something new. Luis (not his real name), however, had not come to see me for leadership advice. All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture.

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