Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Building Your Self-Correction Toolkit Based on Collins’s principles and my experience, here are tools to build self-correction into your leadership: 1. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). The Challenge of Seeing the Truth In BE 2.0,

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Similar to the longer form posts, try to think of sharing something meaningful that you want people seeing when they search for you—like why you started your company, what’s important to you about this business, or something specific about your leadership style. you’ll cross post across your various channels.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Additionally, Bailey is the author of a new series of children’s books about women just like her. The “My Mom Is…” book series offers moms from all industries a child-friendly way to discuss why they work, what they love about your jobs, and why it matters. So I decided to write a book just for her.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 20, 2019

Jerry Colonna ‘s book, Reboot , came out this week. So I bought the book yesterday and read it again over the last twenty four hours. Jerry’s book is about two things that are really the same thing, himself and his work to help people, mostly entrepreneurs, discover themselves. Most hands will shoot up.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Check out the previous posts on leadership values and getting the right people. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). What is Vision? What makes some organizations last while others fade away?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2023

Look no further than these top business book recommendations from 10 successful Australian entrepreneurs who are all active members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). From timeless classics to modern best-sellers, the following books have influenced the way these entrepreneurs think and operate their businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

From EO Melbourne , we share 10 books to help you improve your ability to close—in both your business and personal life. It may be a tough hole to escape, but this book will provide you with tools to approach such circumstances and achieve appropriate results. His book enables readers to learn their Negotiation I.Q. BY JAMES W.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

.” I don’t entirely agree with that and my experience with it has been different, but it brings up an incredibly important topic about leadership. I like to keep things simple and in my simple mind, leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. It will be an incredible trip.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

Create a Following One of the things we talk about in the thought leadership course I teach, Visible Work , is to bring people along in the journey, even at the beginning before you have results, polish, or even a service to offer yet. It was worth following if you were a parent and didnt care about the company at all.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

One person can’t shoulder all of these tasks and responsibilities successfully, which is why startup CEOs need to assemble strong leadership team that they can lean on during difficult times. Traits to Look for When Hiring Your Leadership Team. I cannot imagine confronting the coronavirus crisis without my leadership team by my side.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2019

Adams have drawn on their research to define leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale, in their book SCALING LEADERSHIP: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most (Wiley; hardcover; January 29, 2019). What prompted you to write this book?

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Millau Viaduct , consistently ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). But we knew if it were easy, someone would have done it already.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

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. But the book is a must read for entrepreneurs. Trust me – ignore startup politics at your peril.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collinss book, BE 2.0 Culture is Strategy This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Check out the previous post about how luck favors persistence.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. To combat this, our team began reading more literature about diversity and forcing our top leadership to have more uncomfortable conversations. A great book I’d recommend for more shrewd businesspeople: The Diversity Bonus.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2025

Taking place in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, the premiere event will present pioneers in business, innovation and leadership, including innovative founders Brianne West , Nadia Lim , Sam Stubbs , Iyia Liu , special guest Dan Carter and more. said Brianne. Dan Carter, former New Zealand rugby player.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets to the same point. First, a piece of literary history.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. making the experience “as easy as buying a book on Amazon.”

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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. EQ and Team Leadership? Summary: Team Leadership skills, operating knowhow and industry knowledge are all tremendously important. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Nail on the head.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 9, 2021

On Monday, a copy of Startup CXO , my friend Matt Blumberg’s new book, arrived at the USV office. I picked it up to take a quick look and thought “this a heavy book!” ” So I texted Matt, congratulated him on getting the book out, and then asked why it was so heavy.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt is a great CEO and has even written a book about leading and growing a company called Startup CEO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Ryan Westwood is a man on a mission to spread leadership principles to his team, his one page business plan is one of the keys to his success. Amy Osmond Cook, CMO of Simplus shared with me the "inside" story of how this deal came to be - it's all about leadership and focus. The post This CEO's Leadership Worth $250 Million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mentorship / Modeling Behavior An important part of leadership is being a role model for those who may come after you to look up and say, “If she can do it then why can’t I?” Inclusion I recently read Dan Rather’s book “ What Unites Us ,” which is a book I highly recommend, in anticipation of interviewing him at the Upfront Summit.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

Realistic Expectations Let’s be clear about what a virtual board is and isn’t: What It Is A way to access the most relevant insights from your chosen experts’ books, speeches, and philosophies A tool to help you apply what you’ve learned from their content A method for exploring perspectives you might not naturally consider (..)

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 28, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Understanding Luck in Business Ever notice how some teams seem to “get lucky” more often than others? In BE 2.0,

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). When Leaders Grow, Teams Follow In BE 2.0 , Jim Collins emphasizes a powerful truth: organizations can only grow as much as their leaders do.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Siegel’s recent book, THE BRAINS AND BRAWN COMPANY: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical , explores how (and why) many business owners in digitized industries overlook and underappreciate traditional competencies like logistics, manufacturing, customer service, and quality control. Can you tell us more?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Rob Cross , professor of global leadership at Babson College, cofounder and research director of the Connected Commons business consortium, and author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being. What is dysfunctional collaboration? Conversely, what is essential collaboration?

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve been steadily progressing through the excellent books in the Stripe Press catalog. It’s the best book I’ve read on engineering management. The book abstracts out the wisdom of those times into theory abstracted from experience, not just hypothetical ideas. First, I read High Growth Handbook.

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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. We attribute that success to the grit and determination of the company’s leadership team. But Convene’s journey to this point was circuitous and filled with countless roadblocks.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Here, he shares his thoughts on capacity building as a leadership strategy. . I have gone all-in on capacity building as a leadership strategy. By investing in capacity building as a leadership strategy, you will inspire others to be better, help them grow, and create a better outcome for both your business and employees.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. For others they swear by music. That’s a shame.

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Source Link

MARCH 29, 2021

We’d be happy to make an introduction to any of our affiliate network leadership. For those new to the field, we wrote a book on our methodology , which features global examples of people engaged in improving the environment for small businesses to succeed. Want more information?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. If you’re new to entrepreneurship let me be the first to tell you that this myopic view will get you exactly nowhere. But without these unsung heroes you’ll go nowhere. EXECUTIVE COACHES.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Greatness Comes from Iteration, Not Perfection There’s a dangerous myth in business that success comes from getting it right the first time.

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