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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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How to protect hybrid work cultures from proximity bias

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We asked Dr. Tsipursky how leaders can address proximity bias in the new normal of hybrid work culture. It calls for a work culture that acknowledges such issues. Savvy leaders recognize that they must address proximity bias as they adapt their work culture to the hybrid and remote future of work. Our future is hybrid.

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How to thwart collaboration overload by working smarter

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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? Look at your calendar!

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State embraces collaborative culture with Oklahoma Innovation Model

Innovation 2 Enterprise

They declared that not only could Oklahoma—a relatively small state with just over 3 million people at the time—become a hub of innovation, but that innovation was imperative. The Oklahoma Innovation Model is more than that unique. OCAST and its OIM partners and collaborators never push back from the table of opportunity.

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4 Ways to Promote Team Collaboration and Inspire Innovation Within Your Startup

StartupNation

Team collaboration. Startups that embrace inventiveness and creativity rise, and such innovation happens when leadership and teams unify in pursuit of a shared vision within a culture that highly values collaboration. Related: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace.

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How to foster serendipitous innovation in hybrid and remote teams

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I told Saul that this is a common issue among organizations, and one that can only be addressed by adopting best practices for innovation in the return to the office and the future of work. To put it mildly, it’s hard to innovate when a large part of your workforce quits, and the rest are demoralized due to high turnover rates.

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Making Innovations Viral AND Lasting

Paul G. Silva

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe.