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As a rule of thumb, I don't think most leaders can handle scaling back more than one order of magnitude in org size — for example if you currently have a 10 person sales team, look for someone who's led a 100 person sales team, but not 1000.
— Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

Author: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Source: "First Round Review" | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources

If you don’t articulate your priorities clearly, then the people around you don’t know what their own should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted. You can do a lot for the morale of the people around you (and therefore the people around them) just by taking the guesswork out of their day-to-day life.
— Bob Iger

Author: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Source: "First Round Review" | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources

You get the behavior that your comp plan designs for. In the early days, I prefer to keep comp plans simple with two metrics, max. I also love plans that have a component focused on the entire customer lifecycle. For example, comping teams on bookings and retention can be a powerful way to ensure teams pursue the right users who will be longtime customers.
— Meka Asonye

Author: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Source: "First Round Review" | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources

In order to truly serve a customer, you need to understand two things: What are their goals and what is standing in their way?
— Meka Asonye

Author: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Source: "First Round Review" | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources

No matter how many times we keep on saying the stock market is not the economy, people won’t believe it, but it isn’t. The stock market is about one piece of the economy — corporate profits — and it’s not even about the current or near-future level of corporate profits, it’s about corporate profits over a somewhat longish horizon.
— Paul Krugman

Author: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Source: "First Round Review" | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources

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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The Economist

Source: "The Economist" | Subjects: Intellectual Property, Legal

As for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky

Authors: David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky, Stephanie Quappe | Source: "Deloitte Review" | Subject: Innovation

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

Author: William J. Reilly | Source: "Brain Pickings" | Subject: Career

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Sources: "History as Literature", "Hold this Thought" | Subjects: Achievement, Action, Leadership, Success / Failure

The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts

Author: David Roberts | Source: "Fast Company" | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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