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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. Recently my company published our latest research on how companies execute that revealed 67% fail.

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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? Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. Step into the leadership we so need from you. That VC might not even take the meeting. But bear with me.

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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. To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.

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