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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

While the new approach recently arose from Silicon Valley, the model knows no geographic, cultural or technical boundaries. Winners receive grant money, Google Cloud credits, and – most importantly – mentorship from a who’s who of experts like: Patrick Collison, Cofounder & CEO of Stripe.

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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. I imagined myself as a cultural anthropologist, intrigued and fascinated by this new habitat.

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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Harvard Business Review

Writing in response to the publication that year of IDEO cofounder David Kelley’s The Art of Innovation , Schrage argues that IDEO’s ability to innovate lies not so much in the methodologies of brainstorming, hot teams, and rapid prototyping that Kelley describes but in its culture. Organizational culture Innovation'

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If In those instances, your challenge as a manager is to reorganize roles or rethink strategies to best achieve the goals at hand. Keep your door open.

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

Later, when Ben mentioned his desire to make a positive impact in his community, the CEO assured Ben that the venture would impact the very way the human race communicated with each other, across cultures, political differences and national territories — literally bringing the world together. And so, he decided to join in the effort.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

Somewhat counterintuitively, they argue that mandatory military service helps build entrepreneurial culture. ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. Both cohorts can bridge cultural and geographical gaps.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.