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. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 20, 2024

“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.

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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.

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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. There is no obvious moment when the danger of failure comes riding in on a pale horse. About the Author.

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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? One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. EDENS wanted to play a role in making DC more inclusive, while also creating meaningful investment value, reimagining the project as an economic ecosystem rather than a collection of brick-and-mortar buildings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

This has proven to be a challenging domain to automate and most of the projects are behind schedule. 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.

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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. So much so that when I graduated from college, I wanted my career to include Latin America. Importantly, none of our competitors were doing anything like this.

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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. ” Further Reading. A Smarter Way to Network.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. 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.

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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. Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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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. First, coach them to continuously attribute credit to others for any successful project. A chief executive had a dilemma. In these positions, blind ambition becomes its own worst enemy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Remember, collaboration is overrated if you haven't got the right project. Without a broad network, you will be tempted to keep staffing your project with the "usual suspects." Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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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? Reputation.

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