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What Sequoia Capital Can Teach Leaders About Sustaining Long-Term Growth

BRIAN KENNY: In her 2013 blog post titled, “Welcome to the Unicorn Club,” venture capitalist, Aileen Lee, coined a term that has come to define the benchmark for investors the world over. Unicorns, that is privately held startups that are valued at $1 billion or more, are more common today than they were in 2013

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Here’s How Managers Can Rediscover Their Joy at Work

CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. Being a manager can be a hard job. You’re distributing heavy workloads, delegating, shifting priorities, overseeing important tasks, and handling personalities and interpersonal tensions. You have to challenge your team, shield them and inspire them, no two days are the same.

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Fertility Clinics Show How the Chain Model Can Improve Health Care

In a 2012 article in the New Yorker, Atul Gawande suggests that health care could benefit from the operational efficiency and management practices adopted by successful restaurant chains like the Cheesecake Factory. But given that the stakes are considerably higher in caring for patients than in serving the perfect burger or berry bliss cheesecake, there

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