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The Leader as a Venture Capitalist

Kevin Eikenberry

He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider what venture capitalists do. … If this idea is intriguing, just think how many ideas and how much growth you would get as a member of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System.

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Eliciting Excellence – An Online Leadership and Learning Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry

One new leadership expert available each day – when you want to hear them most. Yes, I am one of the experts, as is Guy Harris, my teammate and co-author for the upcoming book From Bud to Boss – the Secrets of a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership. Over recent years Adults learn from a variety of sources.

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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint).

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What Most Companies Miss About Customer Lifetime Value

Harvard Business Review

The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. Having facilitated scores of workshops around it worldwide, I know it gets results. For all its impressive strengths, however, CLV suffers from a crippling flaw that blurs its declared focus.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while.

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Why Sexual Harassment Is More of a Problem in Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan. in 2025.