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Leading a Board of Directors

Great Leadership By Dan

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. People who can train their experience on you and your business. If you have taken venture capital you probably have a few of these on your board. Governance is for governments, not dynamic enterprises.

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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. How do companies compete in this digital era ?

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

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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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Tom Watson, Jr.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. Read more about what Paul Jackson has to say about EQ and PMs here. Company Fit.