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Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Work with my manager and an executive coach to help me identify leadership development goals that are aligned with business goals. Approximate cost: $8,000 - $12,000.

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When You’re Pushed Outside Your Comfort Zone

Harvard Business Review

Executive coach and former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna takes questions from listeners struggling with stretch responsibilities.

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

Strategy Driven

Measuring what matters is perhaps the very highest use of leadership authority in leading the domain of execution. Once the plan is set, the resources and funding are committed, and the action starts, there is mostly just feedback and response to the unknowns of the battle to be managed.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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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

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. 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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