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Bradford D. Smart, Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People (New York: HarperCollins, 2005).
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
The second-best scenario is a serial entrepreneur CEO planning to build out a new team. Third best is a team that did amazing things, but perhaps due to macro market conditions did not achieve a high return for investors.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
In addition to having do goals, it’s critical to define the values that will drive our lives and our leadership behavior. These are what Andy calls our be goals.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
No stakeholders operate solo. They have external loyalties, to people outside their group and to the people behind the ideas that matter to them.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
entrepreneurial strategy,
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Assess current and future external conditions and strategic choices and determine which cultural styles will need to be strengthened or diminished in response.
Michael E. Porter • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
such alumni are often the source of future business for the firm when they recommend to their corporate employers hiring their old firm
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
To see people’s development as a means toward the organization’s ends subtly devalues the relationship that can exist between individual and organization. Max de Pree, retired CEO of Herman Miller, speaks of a “covenant” between organization and individual, in contrast to the traditional “contract” (“an honest day’s pay in exchange for an honest da
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