Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 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. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.”

Venture Capitalist 78

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 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. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.”

Venture Capitalist 61

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 61

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. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.” Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

Venture Capitalist 56

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.

Venture Capitalist 187

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

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.

Career 8

Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I Cash constraints were a fact of life during my years managing in a startup.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

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. And you can control it through continuous and open communication with every member of your team.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

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. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. He asked how could HBS apply its distinctive competencies to help improve management within the social sector?

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

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. Career planning Managing yourself' So what place does vision have in the midst of disruption? Different methods, same purpose.

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Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. One of the startups that is leveraging Watson is WayBlazer , a new venture in travel planning that is led by Terry Jones , a founder of Travelocity and Kayak. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. And what won on the ice won on the hardwood as well — LeBron James vs. the Dallas Mavericks, anyone? Or think about the soccer pitch.

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Venture Capitalist Sports Engineering Entrepreneur 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

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. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Our conversation left me with three recommendations for managing uncertainty that we all can use: Learn faster than your opponent. So how should leaders adapt?

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

For instance, I have 12 years of working with entrepreneurs as an early-stage venture capitalist; 19 years working for a large corporation (Bell Labs & AT&T) and consulting to their multi-national, multi-billion dollar customers; 10 years of mentoring entrepreneurs; and created a carve-out start-up within AT&T.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mentor Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

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. It's why venture capitalists tend to favor entrepreneurs that have a proven track record (PDF). Does the team have a track record? Winners know how to win.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Banking Entrepreneur Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

But as more traditional businesses are being run on software and a larger component of a company's customer experience is being delivered online, everyone from marketing to general management needs to take notice. A few years ago, community managers did not exist. Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses.

Technology 15

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

They are eager to hire lieutenants whose career zigzags have created a burning desire to succeed in a new job. Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!"

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 17

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

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. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I was confident that inviting female clients to see a movie about women juggling career and family life would be a relationship-building event, paying off over the long haul. In retrospect, I had forgotten to convert my ideas into management''s currency. Importantly, none of our competitors were doing anything like this. And it has.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

According to the research report “ Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa ,” 57% of survey respondents in major African economies considered becoming an entrepreneur a desirable career choice. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 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. All that is well and good – for people who don’t mind talking to strangers. Make them come to you.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Open-book Committee Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ve covered tech for 20 years, so I’d interviewed people like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders early in their careers. How could venture capitalists assess that risk to decide whether to invest? It took a while for me to realize that this was a main theme of the book.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 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. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Sell stock in the company.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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. “If she’s a tech entrepreneur, tell her that you’re also inviting venture capitalists,” for example. Manage your existing connections. Magazine Article.

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Accenture Management Consulting used LinkedIn to set up a careers group — when the group ballooned to more than 5000 members, Accenture subdivided it into separate, micro-relevant groups aimed at specific kinds of potential customers.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Audience Competitive Advantage 15

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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Venture Capitalist Long-term COO Succession 15