Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. These are: Communication: Executives in Alpha organizations tend to hoard communication. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Something you didn’t touch on, was a reverse imbalance…when we are too immersed our our industry/our career and we forget to take time for our hobbies, and a little ‘fun’ It’s just as important to our overall health and success. You can’t talk about this too much.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Pontormo knew he needed to make these frescoes the crowning achievement of his career, so he sealed off the entire chapel. Entrepreneurs and executives know the feeling: Lying awake at night with worries barreling through their heads. Trusting no one, he chased away local youth and kept human contact to a minimum.

Creativity 13

Creativity Venture Capitalist Arkes Self-aware 13

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

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. The frog can’t tell how hot the water has gotten until it is dead.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

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. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

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. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Recruiters and senior executives express frustration these days about corporate talent hunts at all levels. Small-company chief executive officers voice a similar lament. They are eager to hire lieutenants whose career zigzags have created a burning desire to succeed in a new job. The lost opportunities can be excruciating.

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Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

And venture capitalist Anthony Tjan and his colleagues conducted an expansive survey of entrepreneurs that revealed a quarter of them self-identified as lucky and traced their success to embracing serendipitous encounters. That was the challenge facing a coaching client of mine, a talented executive from the West Coast.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Open-book Committee Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

You’re not just networking because you should ; you’re doing it because it’s good for your career. Career planning. Successful executives connect with select people and get more out of them. Do: Shift your mindset by focusing on how networking is good for your career. ” Further Reading.

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I’m clearly biased in favor of the third type of philosophy about PM (as is venture capitalist Fred Wilson ) as I’ve experienced all three and found the yin-yang to be most effective. This can be great fun for some PMs who enjoy partnering with founders and c-level executives and collaborating on the product evolution.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. On average, my executive students answer this question in the twos and threes. My guess is that your second number is lower than your first.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

A chief executive had a dilemma. After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. In these cases, you may need to arrange psychological interventions that get to the root of their insecurities and help them heal if they are to become successful leaders.

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Venture Capitalist Long-term COO Succession 15

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. If that’s the carrot, here’s the stick: Sexual harassment has become a flying, invisible buzz saw that can abruptly cut down your career and hurt your company.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Invariably, most of the people they talk to also know and talk to each other.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

And if you can’t capture the attention of clients, how does your business or career survive? And I drew on my years of experience with startups, both as co-Editor of Mashable and a venture capitalist. If your boss doesn’t notice your work, how will you get a promotion?

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