First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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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Schein Kleiner Magazine Strategy 100

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. What’s required to execute strategy has not been taught in the classroom.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

LDRLB

MARCH 11, 2013

This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. S+B: You’ve written that a leader who wholeheartedly embraces a strategic perspective is not the same as a conventional manager. I’d like to see the managers at all those meetings raise the game by challenging one another.

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Strategy Kleiner How To Leadership 167

Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

You might wonder, “If I manage like this, how will I ever get my own work done?” Practice this management style consistently, however, and most of your coworkers will require very little of your time. The day before meeting, your coworker brings you a list of five or six key objectives, detailing her progress on each.

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Performance Review Review Mayo Kleiner 121

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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. General partners of private funds extract large management fees, but it takes a minimum of six years to evaluate their performance.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

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 time influencing high-level stakeholders by identifying their needs and managing their expectations. Action without vision is a nightmare.” How do they do it?

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Execution Strategy Team Succession 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

HR professionals no longer post signs reading “blacks need not apply,” and managers rarely catcall their female subordinates. Instead, managers might ignore the input of a woman or praise the eloquence of a black employee. If it is so difficult to identify and assess subtle bias, what can managers and organizations do?

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Kleiner Self-aware Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

That’s how Google managed to organize so much of the world’s information in a few decades, and Facebook managed to connect the wired world in just one. Experienced investors know this — John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins often talks about looking for missionary founders rather than mercenary founders.

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Succession Kleiner Business Model Library 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. HBR Staff/Steve Jennings / Stringer/Getty Images.

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Goal Objective Venture Capitalist MBO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

More than 150 managers were asked to allocate a fixed pool of money for raises among equally skilled employees. One likely explanation is that the managers expected the men to question their raises and ask for more. And another study found that people behaved as this model predicts. times larger to men. Why the difference?

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Kleiner Policies Tips Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. If you should be so fortunate as to have a hiring manager follow you, make sure you send intelligent tweets that show you''re involved in and knowledgeable about online conversations relevant to the company.

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Dunning Kleiner Kaplan IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Manage accounts receivable like a hawk, but pay on time. Managing payables is just the flip side of the receivables coin. I have yet to see a venture fail from too much dilution. Pay on time.

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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Blog Innovation Review Industry 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 31, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader Morton L. Mandel [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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Taylorism Taylor Books Review 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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Taylorism Taylor Books Review 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Managing yourself Tech industry Technology' The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables. I welcome this shift, and you should, too.

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Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8