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Cut through the noise to communicate

Persuasive Powerhouse

So here are some thoughts about how you can get a higher rate of return on your efforts than responding to the blah-blah-blah that’s continually calling for your attention: Sleep/rest/get away/get unplugged: When you feel rested and balanced, you will communicate better. How do you as the leader want to be communicated with?

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Promote Healthy Behaviors

Eric Jacobson

Hopefully, you're setting a good example for your team by eating well, exercising and leading them to practice a healthful lifestyle. Organize teams of employees to participate in local runs and walk-a-thons for charity. Fit, well-nourished, healthy employees perform better.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. Private equity as we define it in this paper does not include venture capital investments.).

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Don’t Take Money from VCs Until You’ve Asked 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

Founding teams eager to raise capital to grow their companies enter into long-term partnerships with VC firms they don’t know well. After all, the best performing VC firms, by definition, have experience identifying and working with high-performing teams, helping startup companies grow rapidly, and guiding them through successful exits.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. The future has really never looked better!

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How Facebook Uses Empathy to Keep User Data Safe

Harvard Business Review

Collaborative, cross-functional teams. Security is often approached as an engineering-led effort in which cross-functional teams from research, design, or product are less important. Cross-functional teams are particularly valuable for thinking through the various experiences people may have with a product.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Data scientists continue to be in high demand, but companies are also scrambling to attract or develop “business translators” who can ask the data science team the right questions and apply the results to practical business problems. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.