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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

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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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

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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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

” 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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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

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.