Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2020

Written by Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi, partner, Decker & Halabi , and member, Entrepreneurs’ Organization UAE. A version of the following article originally appeared on Entrepreneur Middle East. As an entrepreneur in the UAE, I have been in consumer-facing industries, such as leisure, food and beverage and fitness.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . As a next step, we recommend that you register at the major expert network websites, as well as LinkedIn and job boards, if you haven’t already.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Years ago, in one of our quarterly offsite meetings, a leadership team member told our facilitator, “I just don’t have enough time!” For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc. Yet, being “busy” doesn’t make us happier; and it doesn’t make us more productive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

That’s more than enough to write a few chapters of a book. Visualize Your Goals: As part of an annual tradition, we started off January 1 in my family by making family vision boards. A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

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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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Many times, optimism would be dashed by another Covid-19 variant that would wipe out bookings for the quarter. As board members, there were many hard conversations and no easy answers. We leaned in during weekly board meetings and reinvested when others left the cap table.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization to share best practices for promoting and maintaining diversity and inclusio n. A great book I’d recommend for more shrewd businesspeople: The Diversity Bonus. WALK THE TALK.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. At Stanford, you teach a class with Jeff Immelt called Systems Leadership. Can you tell us more?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Apple and Rackspace use the employee Net Promoter System (eNPS), a metric that is picking up traction, as Fred Reichheld, the intellectual father of the NPS, mentions in his book The Ultimate Question 2.0. The qualitative data will guide your senior leadership team on how to react to the quantitative data. Make it a conversation.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. What we promise to entrepreneurs is that if we’re in for $3–4 million and things are going well but you just need more time to prove out your business?—?at

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 24, 2017

In this excerpt from his new book, Stupid Enough to Succeed: The Millennial Entrepreneur’s Guide to Achieving Business Hypergrowth , Jeff Naeem shares tips for successful delegation. Use a method similar to the SBI Feedback Tool developed by The Center for Creative Leadership. Let’s start with the “D” word.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

They might face an inflexible Board of Directors, or the C-suite might be united in demanding that employees return to the office for much or all of the workweek. He wrote the first book on leading hybrid teams after the pandemic, his best-seller Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams , as well as seven other books.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. What do I do now? I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. I bought the most popular book on the topic, “ The Mind of the Strategist &# by Kenichi Ohmae, who is ex McKinsey.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mistake 3: Lack Of Leadership I have often observed that product inventors are not necessarily good communicators or leaders. Good leadership is the secret sauce of a successful startup. And always remember: Leadership is not everybody’s piece of cake. It’s so easy, and there are many books on how to build startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

In addition to developing Urban Betty , a successful salon with two locations, Neff also created an app for stylists , produced a book about homes in Austin, Texas, and even reached the Inc. You also have an impressive array of side projects—from books and apps to philanthropic and environmental initiatives. 5000 list twice! .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This has been my greatest joy in being an entrepreneur. I also have a physical “to do” book and a system for jotting things down and crossing them off that I follow religiously. It’s been like having my own board of directors, for both my business and personal life. I aggressively invest in people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

I’ve sought out CEOs, presidents, board directors and more for companies big and small, ranging from small startups to corporations with valuations in excess of US$10 billion, on every continent except Antarctica. They can fist-bump all the way from the janitor to the board. Take Canadian entrepreneur Hamed Shahbazi.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss How to find funding for your startup as valuations and terms return to pre-bubble norms The top-rated business books of 2022 Let’s do this. A real board, including a board seat for the lead investor, and perhaps a board observer role for a second large investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. You need to understand power, ownership, leadership, performance, relationships, motivations, alcoholism, depression, resentment, jealousy, scorn. First, I recently read the must-read book Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton. Foursquare? Noah Glass.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Excerpted from “Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership,” by Jason Richmond (Ideal Outcomes, Inc., As Vibhas Ratanjee, Senior Practice Expert, Organizational and Leadership Development, Gallup, says, “You may not be ready to think about the next catastrophe, not now when the unknowns outnumber the knowns.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But a couple of people replied with responses of such lack of comprehension that I thought it was worth expanding on for first-time entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. Not possible. EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Here’s the short, short version of other stories: Powering job boards : While the tech sector is seeing layoffs, Kyle reports that Gloat grabs $90 million to build better internal job boards. Carly writes that cybercrime operation RansomHouse (why do these sound like book publishers?) chipmaker AMD.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Most VCs are book smart. In fact, book smart can be a negative. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. EQ and Team Leadership? Now you’re talking.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Doing this is a mental game for me: I keep score on how well I’ve done each day. — Lewis Howes , former pro athlete, lifestyle entrepreneur and NYT-bestselling author ; subscribe to Lewis’s global top-100 podcast phenomenon, The School of Greatness on iTunes! Must-Read: 5 Leadership Traits No Entrepreneur Succeeds Without.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We found one of those exemplary steps in southern Virginia where the Dan River Region Entrepreneur Ecosystem recognized the need for an ecosystem coordinator and rallied their stakeholders to hire the first entrepreneurial ecosystem builder for the region. River and bridges in Danville. What success looks like in this three-year pilot.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

In-depth training A survey by The Conference Board reveals the key role of professional development for employee retention. Mentoring and leadership development often takes subtlety and nuance, navigating emotions and egos. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

Keenly aware of the need to build, support and professionalize angel investing, they devoted their partnership energies over the last decade to writing books and articles about angel investing, as well as speaking, developing courses and teaching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

He says, “One of the most meaningful discoveries I made in EO Accelerator was that I was not alone as an entrepreneur. ” Learn more about this life-changing program for first-stage entrepreneurs, and hear from other participants. . And just yesterday, I booked a flight for a week-long trip back to Italy with Lisa.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. They sought case studies and examples of successful companies they could model, anticipating their boards’ reaction to the digital transformation plans they were considering: “Has this been done before? Of course, these boards were missing the point. . Bird in hand, they said!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 26, 2021

One of the biggest challenges of being a new entrepreneur is the lack of knowledge and experience, which can lead to impostor syndrome, which, in turn, can set you up to fail. An ideal peer group for an entrepreneur is made up of a handful people from similarly sized but noncompetitive businesses. . And 2020 was anything but normal.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Guy Raz’s book “ How I Did It ” unpacks the journey of so many entrepreneurs. In this episode, a wood furniture maker, a Church leadership recruitment firm executive, and a design agency founder talk about how they’ve been a success. A partner can be a great sounding board as well. Narrow Focus.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2024

Whether your chapter holds regular strategy summits (like EO Cape Town, photo above) or is considering doing so, here are three things the most successful summits can do for your leadership board—all of which create a remarkable ripple effect across membership as a whole. Why not book your chapter’s strategy summit today?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). You should, too. (no, This is all explicit decision making.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Had we waited for an outside bookkeeper to finish doing the books to know where we stood each month, we might not be here today. But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. I certainly did.

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