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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Being an effective founder of a high-growth company requires a bundle of technical, analytical, leadership and communication skills that don’t often come packaged in a single individual. In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This has not been our experience.

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Mistakes I made as a first-time manager

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Time definitely flies! I had the incredible privilege of being trained at one of the best schools for leadership in the world: Newell-Rubbermaid. Half of them were former peers who worked with me—daily, side by side.

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Why Productivity Paranoia is the Real Obstacle to Remote Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Is the belief of this traditionalist, older half of the business leadership that workers are more productive in the office based on facts? Even before Covid, peer-reviewed research demonstrated that remote work improved productivity. Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? Not at all.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1.

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You Can’t Afford to Make this Mistake With Your Company Culture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If you’ve been trying to fill a position in the last 12 months, then you’ve definitely noticed that it’s become more difficult to attract the same number of applicants that you once did. Written for EO by Marina Byezhanova, co-founder and director at Pronexia Inc. The good news? The bad news? It takes both your time and your buy-in.

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What Plinko Can Tell Us About Where to Post

This is going to be BIG.

In some ways it feels like a company that has gone partially remote—where you still get certain types of interaction on “office days” that you can’t get at home, but it’s definitely not what it was. You shouldn’t post any content that you wouldn’t create if you knew no one would see it. I think of tweets like I think of Dad jokes.

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In Love, In Partnership: How One Couple Finds Success at Home and at Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Mandy: You definitely have to own your strengths and weaknesses to make a partnership work. Mandy: You definitely have to own your strengths and weaknesses to make a partnership work. It’s true that you should treat your business partnership like a marriage. In 2015, the Slaters sold the legacy to explore other endeavors.