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Bing Gordon (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) in “The Corner Office”

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Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Bing Gordon, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor

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Here is Art Kleiner‘s Introduction to an interview of David Kantor, an eminent systems therapist who says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

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This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. [Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. To read the full article, click here.].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/22/13)

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Bob''s blog entries "Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice" "How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem" "How to Expand Your Company’s Innovation Network" "McKinsey & Company: Leading in the 21st century" "The Corner Office" "The Five Stages of Disruption Denial" "To Increase Innovation [comma] Take the Sting Out of Failure" Adam (..)

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A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help

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Here is an excerpt from an exceptionally informative interview of Edgar Schein by Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post for strategy+business magazine (January 2011) published by Booz & Company.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

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Guest post from Robin Speculand: Leaders across the world have been taught how to plan but not how to execute. Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them.

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