Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz thought that “blowing sunshine” was the right way to handle pressure — here’s how he corrected his mistake.
Ben Horowitz is a founding partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and author of the best-selling book, “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”
The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.
Jeffrey Beeson is a pioneer of Network Leadership, the founder of Ensemble Enabler, and the author of Network Leadership.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.
Times of crisis tend to produce “hard” leaders, but — driven by Generations Y and Z — a softer leadership style has taken root globally.
So many of the conditions for a sale or IPO are outside your control — which is why preparation is everything.
How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.
Step 1: Don’t solve the wrong problem.
Every organization has a power block of dutiful but unappreciated talent. Here’s an effective plan for engagement.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.