Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

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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Performance Review Review Mayo Kleiner 121

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Given the strong, positive response after my presentation, it’s clear that there’s a there-there,” he wrote.

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Kleiner Venture Capitalist Industry Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

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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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

” 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. more effectively than lower-performing teams), positioning the enterprise for future success. As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream.

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Execution Strategy Team Succession 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. If a junior member of a venture firm recommends your company to her superiors, it may actually be a negative signal inside the fund rather than a positive. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9