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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2023

Leading Blog

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett Steven Bartlett has never been one to follow conventional rules.

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What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies

CEO Insider

Here a car company putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet, there a bank opening a branch in the Metaverse; here venture funds plowing money into Web3, there […]. The post What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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Niche can be a Competitive Advantage

CEO Blog

In that, I talk about the advantages of being small (like the Canrock Ventures fund). I wrote a blog entry on the Canrock blog called " A Fat Wallet is the Enemy of High Investment Returns " (this is a Warren Buffett quote). My 95 year old inlaws just got email for the first time. They rank among my idols.

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Something Ventured

CEO Blog

I found the film inspirational since what I now do is early stage venture funding. It included stories of the founding of Cisco (and the firing of the founder by the VC), Atari, Genentech, Tandem, Intel and others. I was struck by the fairly long timeframes for success. Most "overnight successes" took 25 years.

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How to improve Klout Score

CEO Blog

I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. The more your connections, the greater your influence (according to Klout) and the greater your chance of being retweeted or talked about. Please tweet this blog post and retweet all the @jimestill you can. Oops sorry - forgot rule 3. Wonder if that will improve my Klout score.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game.

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VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.