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The Importance Of Embracing Sweaty-Palmed Conversations

YoungUpstarts

And, if we’re in leadership positions and part of a leadership team, engaging in conflict courageously and effectively is not only important for the performance of our team, it also has a critical impact on the culture of the organization.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. And that disappointment, I think that is the biggest lift for me right now is to manage my own disappointment.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Eric Ries : That's been a real theme of these conversations about leadership in a time of crisis, that so many of the things that you are called on to do in a crisis, you should have been doing all along.

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Moneyball is Innovationball

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I always like the charming Brad Pitt , and he’s good here in a tailor-made part as Oakland Athletic’s General Manager Billy Beane. What it’s about is the reinvention of how professional baseball teams are managed. Billy Beane, the General Manager, is the innovative change agent or champion.

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