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Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey

Great Leadership By Dan

A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). If you were to go to a bank or venture capitalist and ask for funding to start your new business, they would never accept a one-year business plan. Attend a leadership/executive development program.

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Is Your Team Failing Elegantly? Seven Leadership Mistakes That Wear Away at Your Company’s Will to Win

Strategy Driven

Leaders must develop an eye and ear for this weakness – and must try to listen for it in every conversation and look for it in every ops review. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.

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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

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.

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