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? He wrote a short blog post then challenged me via Facebook to do something with it. This is my shot at “doing something with it&# Jerry.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager. And screened.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For managers and marketers alike, the power to calculate what customers might be worth is alluring. The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. For example: Our customers become much more valuable when… they give us good ideas.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? Savvy managers are always sensitive to what might be going wrong as what should be getting better. Get ready to manage them. No doubt, executives will have to lead by example. Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The kinds of shifts we’re talking about have come more naturally to greatly successful startups of the last two decades — Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook among them — and their venture capital investors. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience. Insight Center.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. For example, if your startup is in esports, you’ll have the obligatory slides talking about how many hundreds of millions of viewers of esports there are.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

No matter how poorly an established company is doing — take Macy’s, GE, or the insurance giant AIG as examples — no one there believes in their gut that anything they might do will directly cause the company to go out of business. There’s a belief that the sun will keep rising. Private vs. Public.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results. ” Design Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Our conversation left me with three recommendations for managing uncertainty that we all can use: Learn faster than your opponent. So how should leaders adapt?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. “Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies. economy and to societal wellbeing. I have rebooted myself.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context. Examples include Prophecy, a crowd-sourcing analytics business, and Koneksa, a consumer sensor initiative.

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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

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. An example I love is how M.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

As venture capitalist and entrepreneur Rich Stromback told me in a series of interviews, “Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. Leadership & Managing People Book. For example, one year I told someone, “Don’t go to the Bill Gates party this year.” They are attached to people.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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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. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

For example, Uber and AirBnB remain private despite having achieved valuations of double-digit billion dollars. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

But that kind of leadership also has its limitations. Here are three reasons the new leadership imperative is all about transparency. Lunch meetings and feedback sessions are a great place to start, and if you're managing across continents or your workforce is simply too large, don't underestimate the power of video.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

I see three major reasons every manager, whether male or female, should read Lean In , and this is the first: increasing your awareness of the paradoxes facing women. Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

But the ways we do business have changed dramatically over the course of the last decade, and it’s become more necessary to reach outside of your expertise – or industry — to gain perspective on your business and leadership style. Venture capitalists never expect their work to be repaid evenly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

I see three major reasons every manager, whether male or female, should read Lean In , and this is the first: increasing your awareness of the paradoxes facing women. Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ).

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