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

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm/Getty Images. But although mindfulness may seem to be a fairly new phenomenon, it’s not.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Many an entrepreneur has passed on the hors d’oeuvres, only to regret it later.