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

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. While there are arguments to both sides of the early career versus experienced CEOs, when considering the less fully developed prefrontal cortexes of younger CEOs, we assert the following trait comparison. People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”

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The New Beta Way To Lead

Eric Jacobson

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors.

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The New Beta Way To Lead

Eric Jacobson

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors.

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The New Beta Way To Lead According To Dana Ardi

Eric Jacobson

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. Invest real money. Reward decision-makers who back winners.