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No, it's not the person behind Benchmark's $2.5 billion payoff with eBay. Try Kleiner Perkins' Vinod Kholsa, who parlayed a less than $5 million investment into Juniper Networks into shares worth more than $8 billion.

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Bigstep.com founder Andrew Beebe recently handed over the reins of his young company to a more experienced CEO. Here are his five tips to step down gracefully -- without stepping out.

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IT has traditionally been a mna's world, especially in the upper echelons of management. But women who've made it to the top ranks of technology managers say there's never been a better time for women to succeed in IT. Article discusses this issue by profiling 10 prominent women in IT.

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Donald Winkler is profoundly dyslexic. He is also a startlingly effective leader at one of the world's biggest companies. The two are related. He sees the world in ways that we can't or won't. Read about his ideas on "breakthrough leadership" and his 10 principles for effective leadership.

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This profile of new economy innovators and influencers includes: Vani Kola, RightWorks founder; Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of Bertelsmann AG¹s eCommerce Group; Stanford economist A. Michael Spence; Jayshree Ullal, general manager and VP of Cisco Systems' switching group; Nancy Li, CEO iCan-ASP Inc. CA; Carolyn Osborne, founder of GoBeyond LLC; Rusty Braziel, founder and chairman of Altranet Technologies; David Neeleman, CEO of JetBlue Airways; Elliot Masie, director of the Masie Group; Dave Hollander, XML co-inventor; Bill Glynn, VC; Donna Dubinsky; Harriet Edelman; Joe Forehand; and Aram Sinnreich.

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Article discusses Toshifumi Suzuki, CEO of Seven-Eleven Japan, and his plan to turn his ubiquitous stores into a center for all kinds of commerce. Also offers some interesting background info and statistics.

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Web entrepreneurs are out to win on a global scale--and bring profound change to Japan's business culture.

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Paul Quintas is Professor of Knowledge Management at the Open University Business School (OUBS) and founding Director of the Management of Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit. In this Spotlight, Professor Quintas talks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of knowledge management and its development, and his role and research in the field.

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This piece is a little dated (1996) but it discusses some general issues regarding the German economy and culture that will be of interest to those with little background. Norbert Walter is (was?) Chief Economist with Deutsche Bank Group.

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Fast Company speaks with David Nadler, who has advised the CEOs of some of the biggest and best-known companies in the world through the consulting company he started, Delta Consulting Group. Topics discussed include:
At 70 MPH, Failure Comes Faster
Beware: Balance Sheets Can Kill
Ask Yourself: How Elastic Is My Enterprise?
Understand What It Really Is That You Do Best
Moving Faster Means Braking Faster Too

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Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom -- the notion that we're only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.

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It was another promise of the new economy: We'd finally move from the old-time rules of the old boys' network to a workplace based on merit, performance, and skill -- a workplace that would be more open to women. Forget about breaking the glass ceiling, the logic went, the new economy would break out of the whole box. That was the promise. Just how well has it been kept? To find out, Fast Company surveyed six successful women, high achievers in industries as diverse as autos, packaged goods, finance, and medicine. The question: Are we living in a meritocracy or a machotocracy?

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"Corporations are built on the assumption of continuity; hence their focus is on operations. Capital markets are built on the assumption of discontinuity; their focus is on creation and destruction. This is the central contradiction of the life of a corporation: It cannot succeed without excellent operations, but it will fail if it focuses primarily on operations. Corporations are afflicted with the survivor's curse: Most are unable to earn above-average or even average shareholder returns over the long term. Their control processes - the very processes that help them survive for the long haul - deaden them to the need for change. Mr. Welch's mastery of creative destruction was rooted in his ability to decentralize operating responsibilities and make creative destruction the responsibility of senior management. This is a very difficult balancing act."

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Learn about the business of being a business guru. Plus, browse through our gallery of guru trading cards.

Editor's Note: Find the second annual collection at
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,43504,FF.html

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Why does an entrepreneur reshuffle his entire management team at the peak of his company's success?

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W. Edwards Deming was the senior 'guru' of quality management, and his 14 points are his prescription for the achievement of quality. His basic message is that the cause of inefficiency and poor quality is the system, not the people, and it is management's responsibility to correct the system to achieve desired results. Here is a refresher on the basics of quality productivity - the foundation for much of our current management thinking.

Editor's Note: If interested in these 14 points, also see:
http://www.mbadepot.com/links/links.php?ID=1426

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On the 20th anniversary of In "Search of Excellence," Peters admits, "I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.'"

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Renée Mauborgne is Distinguished Fellow and Affiliate Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD and a fellow of the World Economic Forum. She is an advisor to corporations in diverse industries in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific region. Read what she has to say about the challenges of "value innovation" and the concepts of "fair process" and new "market space".

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Article profiles Robert E. Kath, widely recognized as one of the co-founders of the Internet (along with partner Vint Cerf).

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Many decisions CFOs make -- how to raise capital, where to outsource, whether to expand -- are deeply influenced by a network of politicians, financiers, and other individuals around the world. For the first time, CFO Magazine presents its list of fivescore bankers, investors, regulators, and rule-makers -- as well as gadflies, opinion leaders, organizations, and forces -- that have the greatest influence on the world of the CFO.

Editor's Note: You may also be interested in the related article on the Tech 20 at:
http://www.cfo.com/Article?article=7280

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How should smart companies position themselves in the global economy? By training a historical lens on the process of globalization and thinking about strategies that can take advantage of its current, intermediate state-what HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat calls "quasiglobalization."

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Fujio Masuoka says that Toshiba tried to demote him after he invented a $76 billion product. The loss was America's gain. Will Japan make the same mistake with the next innovation?

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BusinessWeek correspondents and editors have chosen 50 individuals at the forefront of change. They are presented in the following categories:
- MANAGERS
- INNOVATORS
- AGENDA SETTERS
- FINANCIERS
- ENTREPRENEURS
- CHALLENGERS

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BusinessWeek takes a look at the top (and fallen) managers and entrepreneurs for 2001 (and those to watch in 2002). Some include:
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Howard Schultz
Fujio Mitarai
Oprah Winfrey
Robert A. Eckert
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Daniel Vasella
John Browne
Kent Kresa
Carole Black
Barry Lam
L. Dennis Kozlowski
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Charles Lee and Ivan Seidenberg
Jeffrey C. Barbakow
Maurice R. Greenberg
Steven A. Ballmer
Reuben Mark
Steven S Reinemund
Margaret C. Whitman
Craig A. Conway
Hiroyuki Yoshino
H. Lee Scott Jr.
John D. Wren
Richard B. Priory

The Top 25 Managers:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765001.htm

Managers to Watch 2002:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765053.htm

The Top Entrepreneurs:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765054.htm

The Fallen:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765055.htm

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This interview explores the field of system dynamics, originated in 1956 by Jay W. Forrester, Germeshausen Professor, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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In this issue of Spotlight Sir John Harvey-Jones, former chairman of ICI and one of Britain's best-known industrialists, talks to editor Sarah Powell about the particular challenges and opportunities facing small and family-owned companies, his approach to corporate 'troubleshooting', and his views on leadership.

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The controversial Canadian theorist claims he can create the perfect organization. Has he found the key to management - or merely a justification for bureaucracy?

Editor's Note: this article introduces Jaques' Requisite Organization concepts which are very controversial but also very thought-provoking and worthy of consideration on various levels. I was particularly struck by how relevant some of his ideas are in light of recent corporate governance scandals and the latest police beating incident in California. A very highly recommended read...

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We locked two of the smartest management thinkers on earth (Jim Collins and Clayton Christensen) in a room with each other (and 275 readers) and asked them this question. Here's how they answered.

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In this issue of Spotlight Professor A 'Parsu' Parasuraman speaks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of techno-ready marketing and the implications of techno-readiness for marketers.