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

Harvard Business Review

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” He trained his mind to hone intuition, take in diverse sources of information and emerging patterns, and, in turn, do the serious work of illuminating alternative futures.

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Why Subtle Bias Is So Often Worse than Blatant Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

This reality was highlighted recently when Ellen Pao lost her case against her former employer , venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Finally, deliberately setting pro-diversity goals has been found to enhance diversity-related attitudes and behaviors.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. Diversity Gender Venture capital' Now that might sound a little extreme.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In dealing with diverse potential funding sources throughout your enterprise’s growth, you always need to keep top-of-mind the question “What’s in it for them ?”. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” You get the point.