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5 Transformations The Best Retreats Offer To A Leader

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Self-awareness and reflection A study from 2014 found that individuals who took just 15 minutes at the end of each day to think about what they learned performed 23% better than those who didn’t reflect at all. Great entrepreneurs know that self-awareness is the foundation upon which leadership mastery is built.

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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader. While growth accelerated, Zalando became leaner and more profitable, culminating in a successful IPO in 2014. Delivery Hero then applied this winning playbook to struggling markets.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. And a special thank you to Heather Brunner, our CEO for the past four and a half years. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!) Period, full-stop.

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Interviewing 5,000 People Taught Me 5 Surprising Traits of Great Leaders

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contrary to popular theories, leadership isn’t about whether someone is introverted or extroverted, an idealist or a pragmatist, or even whether they have a gold-plated resumé. While the candidates themselves will seldom admit this, I’ve often found the best indicator of effective leadership is when people develop an “entourage” over time.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database.

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Learn More, Grow More, Be More

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Core to EO’s mission is an unrelenting commitment to helping both first-stage and experienced entrepreneurs learn and grow to new levels of leadership, in business and beyond. Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014. Read more perspectives about executive learning on EO’s Inc.com blog. .

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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

You can use the time to optimize your owned media, such as social media , newsletter, blogs, or to even start new content channels like webinars and podcasts. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014. The post Innovation Through Crisis appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.