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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

Viljakainen’s was recently in town to give a talk and promote his book “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “, and we were fortunate enough to catch him for a short interview to talk about how business leadership in the new digital era. How do you see leadership in the new millennium evolve?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? With their senior leadership team, my senior leadership team, again, service acquisition representatives, and we talk about the issues. Designing in exploitability early in programs.

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Should CEOs wade into Politics, Part III (From Tim Porthouse)

OnlyOnce

Your Leadership Game: “No Comment.” But if your startup does not operate in Ukraine or Russia, then denouncing Russia does little (and Russia does not care!) Does the Leadership Team? Thanks to Tim for having such an articulate framework on this important subject. Should you speak up about news events/ politics?

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Lessons for the New Administration – Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

One was a continuous refrain from senior DoD leadership that new tech, weapons, and operational concepts are insufficient to guarantee the U.S. Secondly, our senior military leadership recognizes that now more than ever we can’t go it alone. At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power.

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7 Leadership Lessons From Successful Immigrants

Startup Professionals Musings

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business. In addition, I’ve always wondered why an inordinate number of successful businesses today were started by people born outside the U.S., Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.