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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.

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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.'” Companies across sectors facing global competition and rapid technological change are continually struck with such strategic surprises. Scenario planning exercises require the same.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. Now that might sound a little extreme.