Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

As Eli Pariser notes in his book The Filter Bubble , Consuming information that conforms to our ideas of the world is easy and pleasurable; consuming information that challenges us to think in new ways or question our assumptions is frustrating and difficult (p. References: Pariser, E. NY: Penguin Books. NY: All Points Books.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2023

Creating a bucket of actionable ideas Ideally, the leader lays out a vision of the future through writing a detailed Painted Picture or Vivid Vision three to five years out (see books by Cameron Herold ). Ideally, these results are illustrated on a One-Page Strategic Plan (see books by Verne Harnish ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Help somebody negotiate their compensation package, introduce someone to your favorite startup CEO, agree proactively to be a reference client for somebody who didn’t ask. I didn’t want to visit 8 countries in 10 days – I wanted to immerse myself in the culture of Europe. I booked non-refundable tickets.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As the field of entrepreneurial ecosystem building has started to grow over the last decade a few books dedicated exclusively to the topic have become valuable sources of information for ecosystem builders. I suspect many ecosystem builders will find the final sections of the book the most rewarding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

That refers to our tendency to look for and interpret information in ways that conform to our prior beliefs, intuitions, feelings, desires and preferences, as opposed to the facts. His newest book is Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (2020). Again, cognitive fluency deserves blame.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. I just co-authored my first book, Lead Like a Woman: Audacity (with a fellow GSA graduate), I’ve written a second talk and am expanding my audience and social media following. It helped me begin to build out other platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Image Credits: Contact.

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Continuations

APRIL 8, 2022

The book consists mostly of a dialogue between a teacher (an astute and telepathic gorilla) and a student (a somewhat befuddled human who slowly learns how to see the world as desired by his teacher). The short summary of the core insight is that humans have two cultural narratives: “takers” and “leavers.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In North America, these refer as private investment in public entity (PIPE), where institutional investors or accredited investors invest in a public company at a certain discount to the current market price. What are the top-three books, or movies that changed your life and why? Go out there and do sales. Schwarzman.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2022

The return to office is in full swing, and company culture is on every leader’s mind as they roll out new onsite amenities and wellness programs to get people excited about being back at the office. But the focus on great perks is just one example of a misguided yet common approach to culture. Culture is a verb, not a noun.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

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. But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Satyam and Nishit (founders), who lead i2e1, cultivated an amazing culture where accepting mistakes was not punished but rewarded. Anyway, when you look for a change in your career, make sure that you find companies with leaders like Satyam and Nishit who cultivate such open culture. Thanks to i2e1, my love for books came back.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2018

John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters is a paean to the OKR. Quoting from the book: said Edwin Locke, “hard goals” drive performance more effectively than easy goals. But teams using OKRs enjoy a better aligned and more ambitious work culture. Doerr refers to OKRs as the first gift he gave Google.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Contributed by Wendy Pease an EO Boston member and president of Rapport International , which specializes in multilingual communications, providing language translation and interpretation services that are accurate and culturally appropriate. I recently read Trevor Noah’s book, Born a Crime. The Limits of Google Translate.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. Competition became an integral part of society due to historical, cultural, and other factors. They were willing to talk openly about corporate culture, the onboarding process, product managers’ goals, etc. In some way, yes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. Published and reprinted by permission of Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Copyright © 2021 by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

We had a single potential client meeting on the books. The Story Spine from Kenn Adams works quite well when it comes to structuring a big presentation: “Once upon a time…” Start with the category landscape or cultural background that spawned this idea. And we didn’t even have a name yet. In three hours. What’s your problem statement?

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. We’re booking out our events through 2022, making sure we have everything scheduled well in advance!”. This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said. It’s not just a space. Green Garage Detroit.

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Derek Sivers

JANUARY 18, 2014

This essay is adapted from an excerpt of the great book “ A Geek in Japan ” by Héctor Garcia. It is the first chapter of my new Japan 2014 book. To understand the Japanese way, you must understand a few concepts that are deeply rooted into the culture. refers to the opinions and true feelings that everybody has.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. I also set personal learning goals, such as reading at least four business books each quarter. By hiring (and firing) for culture, entrepreneurs can ensure that their team is aligned and working towards the same goal.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

While the ideas it generates aren't always groundbreaking, it gives me a frame of reference that I can use to further develop ideas. And yes, Bard lacks the creativity and cultural understanding to make a piece of writing really good, but there's nothing wrong with using it as a springboard to bring your best writing to life.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. Code reveals references to a ‘paid blue badge’ Three months ago, he was laid off from Twitter. Book your pass ASAP!

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A good deal often comes down to the net multiple the investor can book in their ledger. Every investor, by their nature, likely feels this in their bones but in conversation, will often refer back to designing processes to catch “good deals.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 22, 2023

My primary focus was on stabilizing development flows, enhancing leadership, and cultivating a positive culture. Key Result: Continue mentoring 16 individual mentees concurrently, aiming for a 90% or higher positive reference rate. This approach led to over an 80% quarterly roadmap delivery success rate.

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Haystack

JUNE 14, 2018

DAVIES : Now, the book and the article is this, like, grab-your-attention look at things you don’t know about what goes on inside the restaurant and all kinds of things. To refer to an older post and quote the great Epicurus, “ I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 3, 2023

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. Note: While the author may use “I” or “my” throughout the article to refer to Digital Natives Group, note that is simply to convey the truth of his own experience.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 10, 2019

Echo chamber effect refers to a situation in which we are primarily exposed to information, people, events, and ideas that already align with our point of view. Anchoring bias , also known as “anchoring,” refers to people’s tendency to consider the first piece of information they receive about a topic as the most reliable.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Well this is where we’re gonna start to get into the pop culture, right? We had risk on the books to 47 distinct Lehman entities with complex subsidiary, guaranteed, non-guaranteed, collateralized, non-collateralized relationships. Marty: Yes. And the question was, if Lehman fails, what happens then?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

As Patrick Lencioni points out in his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , you want a balance between artificial harmony and mean-spirited personal attacks. personality, cultural background?—?and and a high-performing team will establish a conflict culture everyone understands and commits to.

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Continuations

JULY 1, 2019

For anyone unfamiliar with the term Universal Basic Income or UBI, it refers to a payment to every citizen that is unconditional, i.e. paid independent of employment status or income. In my book World After Capital, I refer to it as “Economic Freedom.” It is deeply woven into our culture as part of the protestant work ethic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2016

Our goal was to create a culture where people love coming to work and they get paid to work (not to come to work), CHECK! Our investors are super happy because they are part of a profitable enterprise, and people love to refer business to us because we make them look good.

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Derek Sivers

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I was a keen and diligent student, and had Esperanto books shipped from overseas, which I read slowly, learning new vocabulary. I used Anki flashcards, and wrote my own command-line dictionary for quick reference of every word I’d learned. I had heard of it for years, found the idea fascinating, and even read a little book about it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In reference to his first round of success, today Lundy runs a membership group called the 800% Elite Automotive Club. Lundy teaches dealership owners and general managers how to better scale their volume, retain employees, become more profitable, and improve the overall culture in their dealership. Wath our Video Interview.

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Continuations

JULY 8, 2020

My Twitter feed these days is full with back and forth on “cancel culture.” It is the basis of what in my book World After Capital , I refer to as informational freedom. Much of it quickly reduces to bickering with each side assuming the worst possible interpretation of what the other meant or what their motives are.

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OnStartups

JUNE 9, 2021

Candidly, back in those days, we didn’t think about diversity -- or for that matter, the broader topic of culture, all that much. When you build a mostly homogeneous team, you incur culture debt. Try not to take on that culture debt. Solving For The Customer has been part of our culture from the early days.

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