Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 24, 2014

Despite making a powerful initial impression, the entrepreneur lacked motivation and consistently missed important business commitments. He’d been a successful venture capitalist and invested in several incredibly profitable companies in the past. How could you manage to hit my boat in the middle of this wide river?

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Recognition is a powerful reward too. It''s like that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Recognition is a powerful reward too. It’s like that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

After all, they have to forge business relations with potential customers, suppliers, and investors, all of whom are considerably more powerful and sophisticated than the startup. In our experiments, performed with Christian Schlereth at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Craig R.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. It’s because they’ve been infected with a disease I call ‘failing elegantly.’

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent. The Power of Digitalizing Healthcare. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Such mining of digitized information has become more effective and powerful as more info is “tagged” and as analytics engines have gotten smarter. That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

But as more traditional businesses are being run on software and a larger component of a company's customer experience is being delivered online, everyone from marketing to general management needs to take notice. A few years ago, community managers did not exist. Here's a five-step checklist to ensure you stay relevant: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? Savvy managers are always sensitive to what might be going wrong as what should be getting better. Get ready to manage them. For knowledge-intensive industries, people's talent, expertise and ingenuity are essential ingredients for success. My bet is, no.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For managers and marketers alike, the power to calculate what customers might be worth is alluring. The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. Steven Moore for HBR. In fact, it subverts how customers truly become more valuable over time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. How has a club that is based in one of Europe's unemployment blackspots turned itself into the ruling power in the world's most popular sports?"

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurs trying to make a business idea work will do anything within their power to buy extra time: run up bills on personal credit cards, take out home equity loans, or find consulting projects to cover a few more months of experimentation. There’s a belief that the sun will keep rising. Persistence. Private vs. Public.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The power of serendipity is hot in business circles. And venture capitalist Anthony Tjan and his colleagues conducted an expansive survey of entrepreneurs that revealed a quarter of them self-identified as lucky and traced their success to embracing serendipitous encounters. Make them come to you. How do you get started?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S. Last year, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in China, we spoke with one of the country's most celebrated scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. HBR Staff/Steve Jennings / Stringer/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” ” That’s the spirit I’ve seen at companies with the most powerful cultures. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. By showing the power of scale economics, he ushered in an era where behemoths created processes to spread their businesses around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

In retrospect, I had forgotten to convert my ideas into management''s currency. The second lesson I learned was about soft power or the ability to "influence nations far beyond the hard edge of traditional balance of power politics," a concept developed by Harvard political theorist Joseph Nye. It also relies on culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way. Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. Career planning Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. An example I love is how M.S.

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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

After retirement, CEOs must grapple with a loss of power, prestige, and immense responsibility. “Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies. It’s not the plane, nor the power.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

That meant distributing decision-making power from headquarters to the field, allowing local teams and offices to set their own business targets and figure out how to meet them, and even putting frontline personnel in charge of budgeting, hiring, and negotiating with clients.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. But the locus and scale of this activity is now changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” He had a powerful belief that people on the autism spectrum represent an exceptional yet hidden workforce. Friedman has redesigned the way work is structured, organized, and managed to suit his employees.

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