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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help": Edward Schein "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth" "Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work" "The Agility Factor" "What successful organizational transformations share: McKinsey Global Survey Results" Alessandro Di Fiore Art Kleiner “Five Factors for Winning” “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”: (..)

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. High performance comes from striking the right balance between crafting strategy and executing it.

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The Thought Leader Interview: Didier Lombard

First Friday Book Synopsis

The interview was conducted by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau. Here is another outstanding interview of Didier Lombard from a series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Comany.

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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.

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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. It’s worth noting that the average investor does have alternative options to indirectly invest in digital startups.

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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? Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. That VC might not even take the meeting. By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation.

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The Thought Leader Interview: Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

First Friday Book Synopsis

Kets de Vries by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (Mqy 10, 2010), published by Booz & Company. Here is an excerpt from an interview of Manfred F.R.

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