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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

” 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. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. They spend 25.3%

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries

Harvard Business Review

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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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.