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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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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.'” Companies across sectors facing global competition and rapid technological change are continually struck with such strategic surprises.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. .”