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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. People all over the world apply by telling the system about themselves and the project they’re working on. Mark Andreessen, Cofounder of Andreesen Horowitz. Balaji Srinivasan, Former CTO of Coinbase.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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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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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.

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. Instead of impact being an afterthought or separate project, like some company's apologetic foundations sometimes appear to be. And so, he decided to join in the effort.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. ” One smart strategy is to tap an independent board member to evaluate your progress and performance so you can get smart career advice and reviews.

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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.