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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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4 Secrets to Responsive Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. . I call these leadership attributes The Big 4. The Big 4 Leadership Attributes.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there. You only want them to commit to attending 1-2 board meetings a year in your home town. Mavens & Marketing.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. I’d love even 0.5%

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For Ukraine and beyond, the world needs entrepreneurs

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By David Anderson, Chair of Entrepreneurs’ Organization Board of Directors. Members are tapping into their networks to arrange donations, transportation and delivery of critical supplies and re-settlement options for refugees. The post For Ukraine and beyond, the world needs entrepreneurs appeared first on THE BLOG.

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6 Ways Executive Assistants Save You Time and Pay for Themselves

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Booking your own flights, hotels, transportation, meals, and meetings. David Nilssen, an EO Seattle member and EO Global Board Director, is the CEO of DOXA Talent , which helps businesses build and scale high-performing, borderless teams leveraging talent from across the world. and more articles from the EO blog.

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10 entrepreneurial superpowers at work in Eastern Europe

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For three weeks in March, he worked at the border, helping displaced people find shelter and transportation. and more articles from the EO blog. . Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. But, Max Caradja Johnson is filled with a quintessential entrepreneurial spirit. He’s not working from an existing playbook.