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AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. In The Diary of a CEO , he presents these thirty-three fundamental laws that will ensure excellence and help you take real steps toward achieving your most daring goals. But there is a method to his maverick style.

Books 215

Books Leadership Venture Funding Learning-by-Doing 215

Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Consequently, last year I founded TheFounderProject - a new type of venture fund run almost entirely by students that invests in student startups.

Entrepreneur 192

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Project 192

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. This is hardly surprising.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

When reducing cost and improving service is the goal, reducing hospital services or moving those services to much lower cost settings becomes the target. Moving from command-and-control leadership behaviors to improvement leadership behaviors will be required. Large employers and the government are looking for the same thing.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15