Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO. Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. Most aren’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

3 Tips to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This choice showed an organizational culture that empowers all employees to participate in critical moments, giving them the confidence to represent the company. Kim emphasizes that while all investments are focused on short-term financial performance, founders must concentrate on their long-term business strategy to increase valuation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

5000 shared: Knowing what you know now, what advice would you share with your younger self? And seeing them hit their stride, find their passion and thrive in our culture is beyond fulfilling. Weaknesses are no longer obscured by “culture.” We asked these elite leaders about their entrepreneurial journeys. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Drama at BharatPe : The Tiger-backed Indian fintech company is seeing turmoil in its leadership, with co-founder and managing director Ashneer Grover asking its board “for the removal of chief executive Suhail Sameer” from the leadership group at the company. Today, those convention centers and hotel ballrooms are dark and quiet.

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Reforge

JANUARY 31, 2023

A Fractional Executive offers their expertise to a business as part-time leaders, often brought in to help fill leadership gaps or leverage external experience in a new phase of the company’s growth. As a result, these roles often require highly efficient leadership and management styles.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Four Pillars of Governance Best Practice (strategy, culture, accountability and compliance) still underpin governance in a startup context but they are applied differently than on an established corporate board. Strategy is everything for a startup company board. A startup board is brave and supportive.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important. That has mainly meant really figuring out how to be a leader and continuously refining my leadership approach as the company has grown. I will finish here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The leadership experts at Franklin Covey have released the essential guide to transforming into the great manager your team deserves. From Scott Jeffrey Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the support and strategies you need to be a better leader. And yet Dr. Stephen R.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 9, 2019

It's awesome to see how Empire Tax Professionals, with Rachel's leadership has grown from a small accounting, book keeping and overall financial company to a larger one and that's thriving. Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

You had to get deep into the problem set to see the opportunity and develop the right strategy—and that ultimately worked to our advantage. As a bootstrapped company, what was your strategy around hiring? Eventually, we attracted well-known investors, and that, along with our culture and growth, made hiring easier.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. How do you get the attention of your perfect customer, craft a marketing strategy and the tactics to better market your business. Leadership and Culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

Yet no matter how often you heard that you should trust your gut and follow your intuition, that advice is wrong. You can use decision-aid strategies to address cognitive biases to defend your organization from misinformation. Another effective strategy involves cultivating a mental habit of questioning stories in particular.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s counterintuitive, and many resist it, but it is often the key to changing culture and improving outcomes. From them, I have learned tremendous lessons about leadership, success and business. That was likely the best advice I ever heard. Top 100 Leadership Speaker. What are those lessons, and how do they differ?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. In the spirit of our WYSIWYG culture at Upfront I thought it might be useful to explain what we’ve done, what we’re doing and why we feel this best suits our working style. That certainly works well for some.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Despite these challenges, the beverage company was able to pivot to an e-commerce strategy. The company founder Juan Giraldo kept investors updated on its strategy pivot and milestones. Here’s my advice for developing your grit and using it: Approach your early-stage company as if you are in a marathon, not a sprint.

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StartupNation

APRIL 12, 2021

I went from tackling opponents on the football field to tackling the business world successfully because of the strategies I learned from my professional sports background. Common professional sports strategies can help entrepreneurs grow their business and become better leaders. Coach yourself (and be coachable). Prepare a plan.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. It was an all-encompassing process. Tell me about this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. ” Classic Mexican Road strategy. Startup Advice' When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This lesson has not only helped my business thrive but also shaped our company culture, emphasizing compassion and resilience as core values. Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. Business is not just about transactions; it’s about people.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers face difficult decisions when assessing for personality, culture fit, and soft skills. For this reason, you need someone on your hiring team with deep knowledge about the company’s culture, its goals, and values. Remember one of Amazon’s Leadership Principles: a bias for action. Final Decision on Hiring.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

This is vital in forming an inclusive workplace culture where people’s voices are heard and deeply respected. In Mr. Steinfeld’s book, 4 Principles for Profit and Prosperity , he introduced the “four E’s” concept, which reminds leaders to use specific strategies to improve the way they manage their companies and organizations.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus. Never have an exit strategy. Shchegolev and Melnikov began experimenting with different SEO strategies in 2006. But if you follow the founders’ advice in today’s guide, you can drive real results for your startup in 2022. Make your mission your mantra.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Kate then spent months helping Jill with strategies to grow the business. Within a three-month period of time, we were really able to empower our extended leadership team,” Kate explains. They could share these ideas on how to transition to remote work because they build a culture of open communication. She then moved on.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the This cultural interview is critical. the people in the room. a holistic solution to their business problem.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2019

Depending on your customers, email marketing can be effective at driving traffic to your website, whereas geotargeted social media may be a better strategy for a physical store. Include interview questions to help you gauge personality, rather than just skills – to find the best fit with your team culture. Great people.

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Dream It

MAY 15, 2020

When remotely hiring employees, how do we develop deeper relationships with personnel and ensure they have a true understanding of company culture? This is the key to empathetic leadership. Consider whether a furlough strategy may work for you, or if you will have to do an actual reduction in headcount.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area. The next important group to spot the weakness in Techstars’ strategy was the investment community.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding? They’re highly committed to body positivity and diversity, both in their advertising and in their company culture. She’s also the founder and CEO of Middle Third, a boutique consultancy focused on mobility strategy. Don’t let venture capitalists deter you from opportunity.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of the existing leadership in our ecosystem.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 22, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. How do you get the attention of your perfect customer, craft a marketing strategy and the tactics to better market your business. Leadership and Culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. Startup Advice'

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your culture, and even your purpose, is the outcome of living your values. There are many styles that work.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 9, 2022

What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? What is Zapier’s culture? The mission, strategy, metrics, goals, systems and processes – all of it – is well documented and organized so people can find them and take action. We also have a feedback-oriented culture.

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