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Tony Mayo

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Can Design Save Silicon Valley?

Harvard Business Review

I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Given the strong, positive response after my presentation, it’s clear that there’s a there-there,” he wrote.

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

Harvard Business Review

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” The rise of mindfulness is unquestionably a positive development. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985.

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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 effectively than lower-performing teams), positioning the enterprise for future success. As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream.

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Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. If a junior member of a venture firm recommends your company to her superiors, it may actually be a negative signal inside the fund rather than a positive. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow.

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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. Mobile in China and Collecting Your Fitness Data. billion internet users across the globe. If Used Carefully, a Twitter Account Can Help You Get Hired CBS MoneyWatch. — Andy O''Connell.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, Alphabet is now competitively positioned against GE with its new focus on the “industrial internet.” So Page and Brin are different from such legendary venture capitalists as John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowtitz, the two founders of Andreessen Horowitz.