Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Women may feel unsupported in their process of moving into a career where so much career advice is geared toward men. Problems with workplace culture A major obstacle facing many women in tech is an unfriendly, male-dominated culture. Unwelcome cultural environments create situations where women may feel compelled to leave.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

Plus, a culture of inclusion translates into a happier, more productive workforce. McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. Your core values tout a culture of inclusion. Indeed, studies show greater diversity yields greater profits. Here’s what we learned: 1. WALK THE TALK.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Clarity of purpose in leadership matters. Doing nothing is avoiding real leadership. and his personality type seemed to be as the guy who built a wonderful, warm and fuzzy culture of purple at this new-fangled Internet kinda company. But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

Access the YLAI Network’s workbooks on responsible leadership and partnerships and allyship to learn more about the forms of biases and their impact. Biases can affect our behavior and treatment of others, hiring of qualified candidates, and respect for employees and partners in the work environment. Education is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. Startup Advice' When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2024

Dozens of investors have approached me for advice on assessing the effectiveness of such policies. Clear WFH rules help sync up different departments, building a culture of openness and trust. On the flip side, it nurtures a trusting, empowering culture, creating a sense of belonging among employees.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

14 Pieces of Advice for Resolving Conflicts Among Startup Team Members Navigating team conflicts in a startup environment requires wisdom and practical strategies. Chad Bellin , Co-Founder, Disca Leverage Startup Culture’s Flexibility Startup culture, often hyped for its dynamism and innovation, can be a double-edged sword.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: I’m sure you get hit up for career advice all the time. JS: The most general yet useful bit of career advice I often give is for people to look at the progression of their career as a story, and do their best to make the story compelling. At some point I noticed a change in our culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

” – Zak Nordyke, EO Cincinnati, founder, Evergreen Mentorship “Accountability is a huge motivator: In one accountability group meeting, I said I would implement an employee profit sharing and a long-term incentive plan for my leadership team. EOA gave me the confidence to find senior leadership to take on key tasks and embrace delegation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

There is of course much nurture and culture weaved in. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. from a young age. But I believe that nature is stronger.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

You’d think tech companies should be the paradigm of how to prep for leadership transitions, since they operate in such a constant state of flux. It’s best to record this history well before the intense swirl of a leadership transition begins. They’re far from it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

5000 shared: Knowing what you know now, what advice would you share with your younger self? And seeing them hit their stride, find their passion and thrive in our culture is beyond fulfilling. Weaknesses are no longer obscured by “culture.” We asked these elite leaders about their entrepreneurial journeys. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2024

At EO’s 2024 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Singapore, the more than 1,800 attendees from 65 countries sat in on an energetic fireside chat with Chatri Sityodtong , founder and CEO of ONE Championship , the world’s largest martial arts organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. But it sets the wrong culture. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Skipping is insidious.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 29, 2025

Under her visionary leadership, SkySelect is transforming procurement processes, boosting transparency, and cutting costs significantly for MRO operations. The prospect of scaling this impact, making meaningful connections, and building a company culture that reflects these values is incredibly rewarding.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

Some people claim ‘culture and employee engagement’ are luxuries you can focus on in good times but during market downturns they should be subjugated to business KPIs. And let’s be clear: The term “culture and employee engagement” doesn’t mean “Happy Hours” and “Pizza Parties.” Disengaged employees couldn’t care less.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2020

Kent Gregoire is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Boston and CEO of Symphony Advantage , which helps CEOs achieve ongoing personal and professional success through strategic thinking, advice and planning. Higher Purpose, Stakeholder Orientation, Conscious Leadership and Conscious Culture?financially

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2020

His advice to YLAI Network members looking to make a difference in their community is to really work hard to get to know their community first. Know the individuals, know the families and the cultures, and know the stories to better understand their needs.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Key components and actions of responsible tourism include benefitting local economic development, ensuring tourism development benefits the community and the environment, becoming part of the local culture, and reinvesting in the local region. These values are essential to how Purpose Driven Tours Nicaragua functions.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Our mission is to foster the culture of sustainability and use technology towards that goal, with a local solutions mindset,” Antonio says. Hernann’s advice to network members is to “believe in what you are doing and be creative.” EnerGea did not expect to face such levels of corruption with competitors and with external partners.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

In celebration of Rosario’s hard work empowering a community of young changemakers, the YLAI Network team spoke with her to highlight the key factors of her non-profit volunteerism movement and get her essential advice on how to respond to the challenges of COVID-19. It was a culture shock,” she states.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At some point in life, almost everyone has collaborated with people who don’t share knowledge, don’t give advice, and don’t help others out with their experience. EO’s chapter-based mentorship programme fosters relationships aimed at high-level leadership and personal development within a structured timeframe. Are you in?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

He goes on to say, “We live in a highly individualistic culture. Do they have a strong sense of culture? Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). When we’re shopping for a vacation we’re primarily thinking about Where. ” So true. ” Do they all get along?

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. Most aren’t.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

Here are several pieces of advice that I learned the hard way: First, not every successful company starts in an accelerator. People are the most important part of any business but especially so in a startup where you don’t have processes in place, where your culture isn’t defined and where your values might still be forming.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To celebrate Porfirio’s efforts in creating job opportunities in his community, and in leading them toward a culture of sustainability, the YLAI Network asked him a few questions about Green Depot’s successes. If you were to give a piece of advice to a YLAI Network member looking to make a difference in their community, what would you say? .

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

We have a strategy doc that I collaborate on with the leadership team and share with the company; updates are provided at the half-year mark. What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? What is Faire’s culture? Our culture can be described by our five values. What do you do to cultivate it?

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

What advice do you have for people in fast-growing companies about being a team-player but also taking advantage of the unique opportunity it provides? The best companies and cultures seem to have figured out this balance over time despite scale – but it is hard. what is right for the decision maker” skew towards the later.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time? But for every sponsor who agreed to write a check, there were a dozen other vendors who were equally or more qualified to support the teams in the program.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

We asked the winners in each city to tell us about their companies, provide advice to fellow entrepreneurs, and share a little more about themselves. I had the good fortune of providing leadership in an acquired business located in Orlando, FL while being an executive at a MedTech Fortune 500. What does your company do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s a short read (or eight hours on Audible) filled with practical advice on building and running a startup or established business. In my business, I began to implement small, daily routines to streamline processes and foster a culture of continuous improvement. It has played a really big role in my life.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

Additionally, Culina Health plans to expand its leadership team with key hires to further strengthen its impact in the digital health space. The companys proprietary methodology, known as the Culina Health Method, integrates clinical nutrition protocols with a non-judgmental, culturally affirming approach to care.

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