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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. What are the biggest risks to the company? The result?

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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We are experiencing unprecedented opportunities for communities to evaluate how best to respond to short-term needs while building resilient solutions for long-term success. While it might be tempting to jump right in, it’s important to take the time to evaluate successful outcomes and develop a strategy to achieve your goals.

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: 7 Strategies for Small Businesses

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Most Popular: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. Work with community resources and local workforce boards. Additionally, many states have regional workforce development boards that will assist you in finding such training programs and future workers. You got this!

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Today’s entrepreneurs weigh in: Is entrepreneurship a lonely journey?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The opportunity to meet personally (or virtually in 2020) with a group of trusted entrepreneurs who run a variety of businesses, to be able to share experiences, and to be able to learn from each other in a safe and trusted environment is second-to-none. I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. So why now? So What Does All This Mean?

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5 ways founders and CEOs can diversify their leadership teams

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Even for companies that have made great progress in diversifying their organizations, there is real risk of reverting to a former homogenous status quo, unless hiring strategies evolve. Get everyone on board with your WHY. Without a succession strategy, employers will have to continually look outside the organization for leaders.