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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”

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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. Reading a variety is fundamental to being a well rounded individual. You can’t talk about this too much.

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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 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. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. the winner’s mindset.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Executives may be playing favorites with one way to approach a particular opportunity, or it may be hard to envision how a tiny customer base can get big. Start with a survey.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

Regardless, good grades get you into college, and knowing how to work gets you into a happy life.” When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. Once we know our why, there will be a how.

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. How does he find good prospects to invest in?