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? Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Their reality was the noise and the myriad annoyances that go with crowds of people jostling to get to trains. Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality. A few stopped in their tracks and listened in awe. Same place, same time — two different realities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

’ Failing elegantly is a very sophisticated and veiled set of coping behaviors by individuals, the purpose of which is to avoid the oncoming train of embarrassment when the cover comes off the lousy results that we’d prefer no one ever see. It’s because they’ve been infected with a disease I call ‘failing elegantly.’

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

This annotated data is greatly facilitating the training of machine learning algorithms without demanding that the machine-learning experts manually catalogue and index the world. With training, Watson can provide recommendations for treatments for specific patients. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

After making their purchases, the street vendors fan out into the city on bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, and trains. Seasoned venture capitalists, acutely aware of the problem, are often wary of investing in ventures that must create new distribution networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Yet, the focus on entrepreneurship training and startup intervention programs has centered on innovation. A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. Despite all the branding differences, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Cloud Storage, and Dropbox are imitating one another.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2015

With a $50 million gift from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, through their private family foundation, Rice University is planning an unconventional approach to developing students into leaders. Retired Brig.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. Any program teaching business skills needs to train their graduates to serve both companies and society. From this, the Social Enterprise Initiative was born.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. miles as part of my training. Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” The President and I apologized to the President and Prime Minister of Iraq, and that helped limit the damage, along with redoubled training on the need for sensitivity to religious, cultural, and ethnic issues.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Because these categories are so new, a drastic shortage of formally trained professionals exist to fill the roles available. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities. That's why you can log onto Codecademy and learn programming for free, instantly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. Company-wide training programs teach new hires about the culture of a startup, especially focusing on the need for speed. We explain each one, pointing out what IBM has done to date and what it must do next.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. Exploring opportunities to integrate workforce training can help close this gap. We believe it offers lessons for other cities, based in research and born out in practice. The Union Market challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Finally, we need to develop training programs that give leaders the necessary skills to master the paradoxes that increasingly appear on management's agenda. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done. Perhaps you've known an entrepreneur, or been that entrepreneur who has pulled together a solid business plan with a perfected pitch and you still have no takers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. To make these tools even more effective, managers can complement them with entrepreneurship training prior to an international assignment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Some farsighted companies never cut back on training in the downturn, but many did. Even gridlock in Washington has not stopped the economy from progressing. Granted, it''s not a perfect picture. Upgrade skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. We can extrapolate from this survey that the employer demand for online education exists — and, moreover, that it is only a matter of time until universities and well-funded venture capitalists will respond to this white space in the market very soon.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design. In general, these studies offered deep insights on one piece of an overall leadership puzzle.

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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. Get people aboard through short duration training programs. GE trained some 40,000 employees on its FastWorks initiative. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

As a consultant, I've been trained to sniff out underlings who can only say no (and aren't authorized to say yes), and strategically work to evade them. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. I spend my life trying to get past gatekeepers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

And here’s an interview with Sam Lessin , former VP of Product Management at Facebook, who says he has “never successfully trained empathy.”). (Read more about what Paul Jackson has to say about EQ and PMs here. Company Fit.

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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. Some Silicon Valley firms are turning to sexual harassment training as a solution. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time. I’m not discouraging that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Amazon, Alibaba and venture capitalists have invested billions into Indian e-commerce. The bottom line: 4G revolution is a fast train which companies must get on or they’ll be left behind. Online shopping : E-commerce is growing at exponential rates in India. It is another internet revolution, yet again.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Vogel tells it in his painfully long but hugely informative biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — which I read on trains and planes and in hotel rooms during a trip to China in June organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation — many Communist Party officials were sympathetic to the protesters.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Most people are not trained at observing or explaining their own behavior, let alone that of others, and entrepreneurs are no exception. Tip 3: Talk to people in mixed groups rather than in isolation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Ford, an inventor with no formal training, had a brilliant mind for mechanical invention. Just four years after Sloan published his memoirs, a handful of scientists and venture capitalists in Mountain View, Calif., He made his dream a reality when he built his colossal manufacturing plants and produced the Model T.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. “At the time, moving close to the market was not a given, and venture capitalists did not have a clear playbook. Israel’s early embrace of tech and VC continues to pay off.

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