Sat.Jan 07, 2017 - Fri.Jan 13, 2017

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The Art of Adaptation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Marisa S. White, owner and founder of White Sparks Photography. What skills guarantee entrepreneurial success? I’m sure many CEOs or analysts have identified the “secret sauce.” I could draw a Venn diagram with circles of business prodigies, and within the intersections, words like “optimism,” “grit” and “focus” would certainly serve as a foundation of survival in an ever- changing economy.

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How Does Your Startup's Management Spend its Time?

Tomasz Tunguz

Calendars contain one of the under-studied data sets within companies. How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives, wrote Anne Dillard. How we spend our days at work determines what we and the company ultimately achieve. I remember meeting Ryan Fuller of Volometrix several years ago. He shared the story of the business he and his colleagues had built analyzing the way companies spend their days.

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Can you pierce layers in supplier–customer partnerships?

Berkonomics

I recently experienced an amazing effort of outreach by a vice president of a large national customer asking for a meeting with the product development team of a critical supplier, one of “my” companies. The goal, the VP stated, was to “see if these guys are battle hardened veterans that have dealt with the real-world product and delivery problems” of a nationally important customer.

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Three Tips for Staying Grounded in a Busy World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Heather Baker, EO Cape Town. MEDITATION. I try to meditate on a daily basis. Taking the time first thing in the morning to sit quietly and follow your breath, even if it’s just for five minutes, can make for a calm and productive day. GRATITUDE. I made a list of everything my business has done for me to remind myself how much I have to be grateful for.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Going Gestalt in Your Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Julia Langkraehr, founder of Bold Clarity. Seasoned EO members continually hear the buzzwords “Gestalt communication.” That’s not to say it doesn’t hold value; on the contrary, Gestalt Language Protocol is the foundation of our Forum interactions and, in many ways, the vehicle for our personal growth. By speaking from experience instead of giving advice, the Gestalt mindset teaches—it doesn’t tell.

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5 Books Entrepreneurs Must Read (But May Have Missed)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By James Ashcroft, founder of Life Safety Management, Inc. As a busy entrepreneur, I’m always looking for new ways to strengthen my business and improve my management of it. And if I can learn some game-changing leadership skills along the way, even better! In the spirit of continued learning, I would like to share five books that may challenge your thinking and positively impact the way you run your business: THE SCORE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF by Bill Walsh.

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What I Learned from Complete Burnout at Work

Tomasz Tunguz

During my first few weeks at Google, I read through the internal resumes of my new colleagues, which detailed their work and promotion paths. Google promoted people quickly. Some college graduates who had distinguished themselves had been promoted every quarter for more than a year, and were managers, senior managers, even directors. And I wanted the same type of trajectory.