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Design Thinking: Refresh Your Business Model and Insert Creativity into Your Routine

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

With design thinking, “you use creativity and imagination to think outside the box and solve large-scale issues,” he says. Design thinking may inspire a teacher to present the same information through more creative means, such as a class game that quizzes students. How does design thinking differ from the typical definition of design?

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Transforming Visions into Reality: An Interview with Libby Swan, Co-founder/CEO of Axioned

Jason Malki

With over two decades of experience in product development and technology, Libby embarked on her career journey at GE in 2001 through their prestigious technology graduate program, IMLP (Information Management Leadership Program). What motivated you to launch your startup? Our motivations stemmed from multiple factors that aligned perfectly.

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Leading with Authenticity: How to Become and Remain an Authentic Brand

StartupNation

There are many definitions of “brand.” A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. Here is what you need to know to make an authentic brand come to life: The value of leadership. Most aren’t.

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Can Company Culture Be Too Strong?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In short, everything about the experience of working for the company falls under the umbrella of culture and is usually determined in large part by the company leadership and the values, mission, and vision of the organization. And there are definitely benefits to having a well-established, healthy culture.

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What is an Ecosystem Builder

Ecosystem Builder Hub

One of the challenges in turning ecosystem building into a recognized profession is the lack of a recognized definition for what it is and what an ecosystem builder is. Clearly, if we’re going to come up with a professional definition of what ecosystem building is, it needs to include this connector/connecting aspect. Community Focus.

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

TechCrunch

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. Robson told me about how that key leadership team member came onboard. So definitely a fantastic addition in terms of tech strategy.”

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Finding North In a New World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Ross Drakes , an entrepreneur and creative director based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is simple and short, designed to help you think creatively about solutions to your situation—a few key thoughts to help you reformulate a strategy for the next three to nine months. The result was the Finding North (Again) report.

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