Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Participants work full-time on their day-jobs, but over a 6-month period they attend workshops and get expert coaching on how to develop their proposition. Consider Barclays and two examples of intrapreneurs from programs run by the bank in 2013 and 2015. ” Develop: Let them improvise.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

A 2013 survey shows the median earnings for men outside of refugee camps (where they’re not allowed to work) was $160 per month, much less than the Turkish minimum monthly wage of around $400. Even more tragic, the workshop employed Syrian children. The average daily earnings were less than $12.

Long-term 10

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. Within five years, the stock had rebounded to $28 a share with market capitalization of $170 billion. For coaching, consulting, workshops and speaking. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game.

Crisis 163

Crisis Planning Learning-by-Doing Workshop 163

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. What values drove them? What made them proud?

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. Over the last two months, we conducted workshops for three groups of senior executives from some of China’s largest state-owned enterprises. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan. in 2025.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8