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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

LDRLB

[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. This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. To read the full article, click here.].

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network , who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was.

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The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is Art Kleiner‘s Introduction to an interview of David Kantor, an eminent systems therapist who says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. Recently my company published our latest research on how companies execute that revealed 67% fail.

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. 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?,

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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

Dr. Kehr's Couch Jonathan Foust Radio Free Enterprise Steve Gladis, Leadership Coach Suzi Pomerantz, Executive Coach The Touch Podcasts I Love Public Radio: Radio Lab Public Radio: Speaking of Faith Public Radio: Story Corps Public Radio: Writer’s Almanac Scientific American: Science Talk Tools I Use Easy Screen Sharing with Join.Me

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/10/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: 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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