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Upgrade Your Leadership Skills to Stabilize Your Team and Maintain Momentum

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As a business consultant, I saw senior leaders shift their teams to fully remote work when, prior to the pandemic, they only allowed flexible schedules on an individually earned basis. Leaders displayed tremendous adaptability during the pandemic—an outcome my consulting company’s been pushing for years. Contributed to EO by Gloria St.

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14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders

Startup Blogpost

14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders To gain a deeper understanding of effective leadership, we asked startup founders and CEOs to share the most valuable lessons they’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs. This lesson has influenced my leadership style profoundly.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Expert Networks.

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How to Succeed in Engineering Consulting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Engineering consulting might be for you. Here’s a look at why engineers branch out into consulting, the best ways to get started and how to ensure success. The pros (and a few cons) of consulting. Engineers who choose consulting say they like the autonomy and the chance to feel ownership in their projects. Success tips.

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Dear Sophie: How can I present a strong O-1A or EB-1A application?

TechCrunch

Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? I would also recommend you consult an experienced immigration attorney who can help you determine the best approach based on your timing and goals. Under your leadership, how much funding has your startup raised? Savvy Startup Founder. Take a listen!

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What science says about Elon Musk’s office mandate vs. “Excellence from Anywhere” policies

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Such a focus on visibility in the office speaks to a highly traditionalist leadership mindset underpinned by the illusion of control. They believe that having employees present in the office guarantees productivity. This cognitive bias describes our mind’s tendency to overestimate the extent to which we control external events.

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Together We Grow: 11 Expert tips for scaling a SaaS business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Led by Jan Heybroek, the closed, coached conversations facilitate shared experiences around one presenter’s specific business challenge in a deep-dive presentation format. Once senior leadership took over our sales component, we discovered so many good nuggets about which features were most important to customers.

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