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.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

” Here’s how to get the most from the conferences you attend. You’re not just networking because you should ; you’re doing it because it’s good for your career. Career planning. Do: Shift your mindset by focusing on how networking is good for your career. Change your mindset.

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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.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Groupthink Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. Invest real money.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

It might also be why people are quitting their consulting gigs and investment banking positions to pursue a career in start-up land. Winners know how to win. It's why venture capitalists tend to favor entrepreneurs that have a proven track record (PDF). Does the team have a track record?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. To start, assess the network you have today. There’s no other way to put it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

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?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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Uncertainty Venture Capitalist Decentralization After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Vance has received huge attention for his book Hillbilly Elegy , chronicling his time as a venture capitalist who grew up in rural Ohio, and the difficulties his background presented. Class-based bias, just like gender- and racial-based biases, can seep into workplace systems and artificially hinder the career success of those groups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.". 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

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. But new bundles keep appearing. Why is this? Well, maybe because there are “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.”

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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. But often the real answer is how to get men to have a more accurate view of their own abilities and make more-rational risk assessments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. While elevated narcissism and self-promotion has been shown to result in quicker promotion early in one's career, its negative impacts are revealed in positions of higher authority.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Business customers do expect to see the same unique and effective tools they use: from how-to videos on YouTube, to personalization tools, to employees as customer service reps, to intuitive design that rewards past activity and predictive data analytics.

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