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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network , who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P.

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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

Once the employee develops a solution, coach her through the following steps: Establish an action plan. The day before meeting, your coworker brings you a list of five or six key objectives, detailing her progress on each. If you tell rather than ask, you will not have accountable employees. Be patient.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'”

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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team.

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The Thought Leader Interview: Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

First Friday Book Synopsis

Kets de Vries by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (Mqy 10, 2010), published by Booz & Company. To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.

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Keep your hopes humming

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [This post was co-written by Don Maruska, who is co-author of "Taking Charge of Your Talent" with Jay Perry.] As Don’s long-time friend and mentor, Eugene Kleiner of the Kleiner Perkins venture firm fame, observed, “Mental outlook trumps knowledge.” Leadership Development'

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