First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the introduction to an interview of Dov Seidman, conducted by Art Kleiner and featured in strategy+business magazine published by Booz & Company, during which the influential business author and CEO explains why the practice of enlightened self-governance gives companies an edge.

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MARCH 11, 2013

This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. [Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. To read the full article, click here.].

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. High performance comes from striking the right balance between crafting strategy and executing it.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help": Edward Schein "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth" "Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work" "The Agility Factor" "What successful organizational transformations share: McKinsey Global Survey Results" Alessandro Di Fiore Art Kleiner “Five Factors for Winning” “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”: (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 28, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice" "How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem" "How to Expand Your Company’s Innovation Network" "McKinsey & Company: Leading in the 21st century" "The Corner Office" "The Five Stages of Disruption Denial" "To Increase Innovation [comma] Take the Sting Out of Failure" Adam (..)

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Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The day before meeting, your coworker brings you a list of five or six key objectives, detailing her progress on each.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2021

The San Francisco-headquartered company is backed by bigwig investors such as Google Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, General Catalyst, Google Ventures, Salesforce, and the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Instagram, WordPress, Box, Eventbrite, Evernote, and Stripe, among others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. He’s the Valley’s first-ever Design Partner. That’s a serious step into the mover-shaker circle for the design profession.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Water, water, everywhere. Is water the solution to one of the biggest shortcomings of renewable energy? When the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine, these renewable energy sources don't source much energy, so during those times home owners and businesses using alternative energy must instead draw more power from the grid.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

At the Neuroleadership Summit 2012 held in mid-October in New York City, Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine, joined me as we presented research casting new light on conventional thinking many of us have about buzz.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 31, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader Morton L. Mandel [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

GE and its venture capital (VC) partners such as Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital have invested $134 million (of $200 million allocated) in a small selection of these businesses. Starting in mid-2010, GE asked the world for their ideas about "Powering the Grid" and, later on, "Powering Your Home."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

In a recent article , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner presented some survey findings underscoring the well-established fact that few leaders (only 8%, according to their study) are good at both creating good strategies and putting them into practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” Through his unique lens, he came to create what we know as scenario planning — a widely used strategic planning practice that now spans all sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow. But, in my experience, they're good medicine. Never start your fundraising process by meeting the top funds first.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

Kets de Vries by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (Mqy 10, 2010), published by Booz & Company. Here is an excerpt from an interview of Manfred F.R.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

Experienced investors know this — John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins often talks about looking for missionary founders rather than mercenary founders. Of course every company has the obligation to become a successful financial business, but the reason it exists is its mission.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For example, the initial investments of $25 million, made by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in Google in 1999, increased by more than hundred folds by the time Google went public in 2004. Thus, the most lucrative investment opportunities, with the highest payoff potential, never see the light of public market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

So Page and Brin are different from such legendary venture capitalists as John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowtitz, the two founders of Andreessen Horowitz. That said, fully expect Page and Brin to work with venture capitalists to pool the financial resources required for the moonshot projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. Mobile in China and Collecting Your Fitness Data. billion internet users across the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

This reality was highlighted recently when Ellen Pao lost her case against her former employer , venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Finally, subtle discrimination is damaging because there is little or no legal recourse.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

After losing her lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, Ellen Pao made an executive decision to ban salary negotiations at Reddit where she is interim CEO. One solution may be to seek out organizations that suppress salary negotiations. Recall that when no negotiations were allowed, men and women got similar raises.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

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.

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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. HBR Staff/Steve Jennings / Stringer/Getty Images. Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

The high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit by Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is being discussed as if it’s emblematic of gender bias in tech. Kleiner Perkins is not just about the kind of subtle stereotyping that’s common at many large tech companies. Kleiner Perkins ultimately fired Nazre.)

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As Don’s long-time friend and mentor, Eugene Kleiner of the Kleiner Perkins venture firm fame, observed, “Mental outlook trumps knowledge.” Posted in Leadership Development [This post was co-written by Don Maruska, who is co-author of "Taking Charge of Your Talent" with Jay Perry.] Success requires a constructive frame of mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

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.

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