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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Your ability to empathize with people in your business and your key relationships will ensure support and loyalty. I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. Your support in these difficult times will go a long way in retaining them for life. Cash Is Everything.

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How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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What am I Thankful for This Year?

Both Sides of the Table

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014.

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Ready to Sell Your Business? Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014).

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012).

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Making Failure Your Friend

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. I was 10 years into my entrepreneurial journey, unemployed with zero savings and had no back-up plan to support me. The post Making Failure Your Friend appeared first on THE BLOG.