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4 Secrets to Responsive Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Humility opens the door for a leader to have the courage to surround herself with the very best people who are highly competent and perhaps even smarter than herself. Humility, seeking out the very best expertise and help one can find—learning from their experiences, getting and using good advice—is a natural companion to curiosity.

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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Even during the best of times, it requires long hours, endless devotion, and a willingness to take big risks and make gut-wrenching decisions. Plenty of candidates for your leadership team will have big ideas, but few will have a proven track record of transforming concepts into tangible solutions. Action-oriented. Communicative.

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3 Ways to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in Your Workplace Starting Today

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A diverse and inclusive organization amplifies the number of potential hires—which means access to the most talented candidates. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization to share best practices for promoting and maintaining diversity and inclusio n. No one can dispute the inherent benefits of diversity in the workplace.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

The more candidates you reach and evaluate, the better the idea you have of who you are looking for and the more you get the word on the street that you are hiring. They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. That's something I learned at Path 101.

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3 Action steps to bake DEI into your organization’s culture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In doing so, you’ll lay the groundwork for a more diverse candidate pool. What candidates want to hear about is how you’re building diversity into the design of your culture. Even the best diversity and inclusion messages won’t reach the right ears if your megaphone is pointed in the wrong direction. Nail down your messaging.

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5 Qualities to Look for in a Remote Employee

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Other entities, though, have found a way to keep operations running with a remote workforce—and the applicant pool of potential candidates is massive. For example, if you need a web developer to build the backend of your eCommerce platform, your candidate will need more advanced education and training than a social media intern.

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How Embracing the Change Curve Empowered Me To Grow as an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But I was reluctant to delegate the core functions of the business: business development, interviewing every candidate, and matching clients with fractional executives. Instead of ripping off the Band-Aid and hoping for the best, I eased myself into it using the Change Curve. Finally, I let go of client-candidate matching.