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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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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

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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Successful Startups Don’t Make Money Their Primary Mission

Harvard Business Review

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. Sometimes people stop because there’s no more money, or customers don’t like the product. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

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Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014

Harvard Business Review

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. HISTORIC GROWTH IN WEARABLES.

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