Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2022

In this third installment of Kym Huynh’s Leadership Toolkit series, Kym asked successful entrepreneurs from EO chapters around the world, “How important are values? However, I find myself referring to and using them when I conduct staff interviews as they encapsulate the qualities we look for in team members.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. In Indian culture, it is very common to take on a new name. From a Western perspective, it sounds strange, but it is a core element of Indian culture. In the Sikh culture, this means “The Happy King.”.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

They collaborate and refer to those that play their specific role. People here are incredibly willing to help, to introduce and refer. Entrepreneurs are a cultural norm in the US. References by startups to Australian customers and competitors don’t resonate with US investors and corporates unless they know them.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

Afroricas creates content on finance management, social networking, careers, and leadership to support black women in their personal and professional development. This information enables users to cross-reference and verify data and thus have a more comprehensive overall vision. The YLAI Fellowship Program is funded by the U.S.

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Gust

JULY 20, 2014

Yet, I’ve found through experience that both honesty and morality are relative terms, depending on the reference point of both the speaker and the receiver. Be courteous and considerate to all on cultural differences, positions, races, ages, or any other types of distinctions. No one likes to be dis-respected (from their perspective).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Marina’s other posts include 7 Ways to Maximize your Global Speakers Academy Experience and Will We Meet at EO’s Global Leadership Conference this year? I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy. I’ve worked with many, shared the stage with a couple, and referred several others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When it comes to filling executive, presidential and other leadership-oriented roles within an organization, companies are more likely to conduct what is called an “executive search” than they are to hire internally or conduct a standard recruitment process. These benefits exist for any job. The best strategy is to mix approaches.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

” Take note, this is not a one metric to rule them all piece of thought leadership. The secret to doing great reference checks for potential hires. I’ve hired enough people to understand that cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias is endemic when it’s time to check a candidate’s references.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2023

When it comes to planning strategy, the CEO’s vision is then shared with all key team members and leadership at a time and place away from the grind of day-to-day work, what we refer to as an “offsite.” In my organization, both roles are expertly performed by our Culture, Strategy and Recruiting person.)

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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. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy. But issues do arise as your company grows.

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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. The ultimate goal of Green Depot is to be a global reference for industrial triple impact companies (i.e.,

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture. We were identified as having a culture that was extremely risk averse and complacent, with very low levels of entrepreneurial activity. We’ve also had some success in convening ecosystem actors to discuss and share programs, refer entrepreneurs, etc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Make your impact grow exponentially by cultivating a giving culture in your business. ” Piyush’s book, Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture that Matters , reinforces how to lead by example by giving to your employees. Lead by example. Lead by example.

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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. We also extensively check references. What is Faire’s culture? Our culture can be described by our five values. To create this culture, it’s all about mechanisms.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

For Richard, he came from a place where skincare was more culturally accepted. The company is already cash flow positive, and the new funding will enable Pangaea to round out leadership roles in its brands and reach the next stage of growth with the goal of being “omnichannel male megabrands,” Gani said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO. Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

That refers to our tendency to look for and interpret information in ways that conform to our prior beliefs, intuitions, feelings, desires and preferences, as opposed to the facts. Besides illusory truth, what are some other cognitive biases you need to beware of to protect your organization from misinformation?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 6, 2018

Competency in the field, cultural fit, communication skills, management experience. First, you already have a strong reference on their behalf, so there’s less screening required. Second, there’s no leadership/relationship risk. You’ve just raised a round of financing. All of those should be obvious.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But when he announced his new project, Hampton , an invite-only club for chief executive officers, the references started rolling. Then they are interviewed for culture fit and to confirm that they are building digital-first businesses. Chief is a private membership club for women in leadership positions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s counterintuitive, and many resist it, but it is often the key to changing culture and improving outcomes. From them, I have learned tremendous lessons about leadership, success and business. If we look at a mistake as fatal, we’ve just made the mistake I reference above and let it become a permanent failure.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a significant cultural shift, the technology organizations inside these FIs have also started to recognize that not all of their tech products need to be built “in-house.” core banking providers like FIS, Fiserv, and Jack Henry) Looking Ahead We believe this is the best time for founders to be selling software into financial institutions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

But many of those same advantageous qualities can also be problematic, as new hires try to make an impact while adjusting to a new company culture. They didn’t yet have a full grasp of our company culture and our way of working. In helping them succeed, we succeed in our leadership roles, and so does our company as a whole.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

At the same time, they’re also struggling to raise fresh capital — and those who are able to raise money and extend runways are navigating the cultural complexities of down rounds. If leadership erred, take responsibility for the mistakes. We broke the process down into three parts — planning, execution and follow-up.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The event was predicated on legislation passed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, promoting female participation in the Japanese economy – the policy is widely referred to as “womenomics.” I was particularly captivated by Fujiyo Ishiguro’s story and presentation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Creating Startup Junkies focuses on the unique proposition of creating sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in unexpected places — in the parts of the country sometimes referred to as the “flyover states.” Many ecosystem builders may already be familiar with Amerine and Stanbridge through the Startup Junkies podcast.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 22, 2023

My leadership was crucial in overcoming the challenges posed by COVID-19 and significant organizational changes. This collaboration involved a series of Leadership Academy workshops and online webinars, aimed at hedging their startup investments. Engineering Leadership Academy workshop.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Satyam and Nishit (founders), who lead i2e1, cultivated an amazing culture where accepting mistakes was not punished but rewarded. Anyway, when you look for a change in your career, make sure that you find companies with leaders like Satyam and Nishit who cultivate such open culture. In startups, it’s the opposite.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us! What would our culture look like? One of the great thought leaders on culture-powered businesses, Paul Spiegelman, nudged me to tell this story on a pretty big platform. Back in 2008, our team did a vision exercise: What would Ruby look like at 10 times our current size?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

We continued to build a lot of trust within the team, and they started referring their friends to apply. Eventually, we attracted well-known investors, and that, along with our culture and growth, made hiring easier. Luckily we had a deep culture of transparency that goes back to the beginning of the company.

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Feedough

JANUARY 11, 2021

Due to existing cultural and gender biases, women find it difficult to secure funding from investors to start a business. Gender Lens Investing refers to the practice of investing in women with the sole motive of women empowerment. Moreover, when women demonstrate leadership qualities, they are perceived negatively.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2018

The company leadership set corporate OKRs. But teams using OKRs enjoy a better aligned and more ambitious work culture. Doerr refers to OKRs as the first gift he gave Google. There are many goal management techniques, each with positives and negatives. First, the OKR process aligns the company from top to bottom.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 3, 2022

Whether you call it the “Great Resignation” or the “Great Reassessment” as some folks are now referring to the shifts in employee beliefs and attitudes, Beti is ringing a bell with Paycom’s customers. Innovation is our core value, so our leadership continues to push. Leadership Diversity.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire. It makes a lot of sense that you talk about even cultural differences in the way that people work or the way that people communicate, running a global company as you did, I’m sure you saw that.

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