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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

These overachievers and members of The Oracles share their strategies to sharpen your focus, prolong your concentration and beat distractions once and for all. Must-Read: 5 Leadership Traits No Entrepreneur Succeeds Without. I wrote kids’ yoga books and about my experiences with cars and racing. Create a fierce focus culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Glazer has established himself as a leader who invests in his team and in the culture of his organization. . Here, he shares his thoughts on capacity building as a leadership strategy. . I have gone all-in on capacity building as a leadership strategy. If you are, you can expect the same behavior from others.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2017

Rules, regulations and bureaucracy are part of corporate culture, but, done right, they don’t have to squelch morale and productivity. Here are six strategies for paying attention to what matters in a corporate environment rich with rules. Offer new solutions and step up to leadership roles of their own. That fuels innovation.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

I saw a significant gap in how many companies were approaching employee wellness, particularly in terms of integrating physical health and overall well-being into their corporate culture. I wanted to create a platform that could help companies prioritize employee wellness and create a culture of health and fitness in the workplace.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

With many companies today struggling to attract and retain talent, a culture of mentorship will put your company ahead of the competition. While competitive compensation is still important, many workers are increasingly motivated by career development opportunities and a positive company culture. million quitting last November.

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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

APRIL 19, 2019

He has written a Wall Street Journal bestselling book called The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future. . 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These employees detailed a low-morale work environment, due in part to the way that leadership sets frantic strategy and refuses basic feedback. Eight people out of Ro’s 11-person customer service operations team have quit due to culture, the majority leaving after only being at the company for five months, employees say.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. Meddy CEO Haris Aghadi and COO Abed Alkarim Khattab will join Helium’s leadership team as part of the deal. Helium Health’s acquisition of Meddy is a major expansion play.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And seeing them hit their stride, find their passion and thrive in our culture is beyond fulfilling. I also have a physical “to do” book and a system for jotting things down and crossing them off that I follow religiously. Weaknesses are no longer obscured by “culture.” This has been my greatest joy in being an entrepreneur.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Then, we develop a communication strategy to convey the value of these face-to-face tasks to hybrid employees, to get their buy-in on coming to the office for high-impact work pursuits. Mentoring and leadership development often takes subtlety and nuance, navigating emotions and egos.

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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. An author of four books, two of them best-sellers. His latest book is Celebrity CEO. Leadership and Culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture. Image Credits: Robin.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2015

What’s more, they not only embrace company culture, they hold you accountable for it. I call her a Culture Catalyst (CC), and she works to align each individual’s goals for growth with our culture and business goals, while also delivering metrics-based results on employee satisfaction and productivity. That’s a win in my book!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

An author of four books, two of them best-sellers. His latest book is Celebrity CEO. 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. How do you nurture a culture of excellence in your organization.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. Since these leaders had no margin of error, they tried to find a playbook or blueprint to show them exactly how to execute their digital transformation strategy. Organizations traditionally have prioritized their strategy and budgets according to the “business hierarchy of needs.”

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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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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Greg Satell was interviewed on the You Are Not So Smart podcast (excellent, highly recommended) about his book Cascades. Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) to achieve lasting impact.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches. I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I have intentionally designed the working environment and culture and have not left it to chance. When it comes to my leadership, I know what has got me here will not get me or my company there. Your Leadership Development Leading a startup is hard. You need to scale up your leadership skills ahead of your company’s growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

You can use decision-aid strategies to address cognitive biases to defend your organization from misinformation. One of the most effective strategies is to help your employees and yourself build up a habit of automatically considering alternative possibilities to any claim you hear, especially claims that feel comfortable to you.

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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. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. ” Classic Mexican Road strategy. Even today.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In our recent conversation, Linda reminded us about the importance of management, the pros and cons of different cultures, and how one can manage and thrive in each. It is easy to be a micromanager, but instead what really helps is service-level leadership where the people under you don’t need you to tell them how to do their job.

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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. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. What would our culture look like? When it was a matter of business life and death, I practiced daily cash management. Our offering?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2018

Research shows employees leave their jobs because of poor leadership and poor management. A great management culture provides a competitive edge when hiring talent. They meet monthly, read management books and discuss the best ways to deploy the strategies in the startup. Retaining these employees is good business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2021, our company culture grew like wildfire, fueled by untamed ambition and seemingly limitless demand from a pandemic-stricken events industry. But the book of Hopin has just begun. Today, Hopin has a clear vision, a battle-tested team, and miles of runway to execute, thanks to the prescience of our leadership team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 22, 2023

No strategy → no focus → no improvements → no differentiators → no happiness in what I do → back to employee mode. Without a strategy, one might temporarily enjoy the comfort of a well-established business with a waiting pipeline of potential clients, coasting on inertia. My 2023 strategy: Mentoring triangle of strength.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

So, we developed this leadership talent for engineers, the first of which is build with purpose. ” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. How do we know that that’s actually something that the client will like?” Always a pleasure.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In addition to our love for software development, we also had strong ideas on the kind of culture that would likely inspire smart people to do their best in a technology-focused organization. In shaping our team structures, we have borrowed many ideas from the book. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. This cultural change starts with the leaders actually doing what they want other people to do.

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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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Manager guides worked particularly well across regions and across cultures as a way of building rapport quickly during high growth. Goal frameworks ensure that the priorities of the leadership team coalesce the priorities of the rest of the organization. Claire is writing a book about management due to publish next year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 3, 2023

Four strategies to prepare for an exit that will set you up for success. A chapter wasn’t just over, a book was being closed. Now, we were adapting to an organization with its own culture, operating procedures, tech stack, and vocabulary. With that, the business I had spent a decade building, and then sold, would be no more.

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