First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

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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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. 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

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. Thus, the most lucrative investment opportunities, with the highest payoff potential, never see the light of public market.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 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. Like most firms, my company weathered numerous market ups and downs.

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

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. A simple example is LocationList , a smartphone app that uses your grocery list to help you navigate market aisles in the most efficient route possible.

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Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8