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

Harvard Business Review

In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. He and his two Millennial cofounders wanted me to help turn their growing tech startup into an international giant, as their Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. Sounded good.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

Square , a financial services start-up created by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, markets its transaction processing services directly to consumers and small businesses via the Internet. Big companies hesitate to make those decisions, which require bringing many people to the table and taking real technical risks.

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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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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

Given this, CECP partnered with KKS Advisors, an advisory and research firm where one of us works and the other is cofounder, to explore the information content of these plans, create a framework analyzing the content of the reports, and examine how capital market participants respond to them.

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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.