Leadership

Infographic: The Value of Women in Startups

March 1, 2013

This interesting infographic called The Value of Women in Startups is from onlinebusinessdegree.com. Lots of interesting information here.  (Via.)

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You Can’t Teach Leadership. But You Can Lead.

February 1, 2013

From Be Vulnerable by Brad Feld, venture capitalist and startup catalyst: “We are told that leaders must be strong. They must be confident. They must be unflinching. They must hide their fear. They must never blink. They cannot be soft in any way. “Bullshit.” That’s a nice tangent spin on my post here yesterday. And it’s based [...]

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Pop Quiz: Can You Teach Me Leadership?

January 31, 2013

Two things wrong with a good portion of what I see on the web on leadership:  You can’t teach me leadership. We’re different people. What works for you — or somebody else, some prominent successful person — is specific to who you are, your styles, your background, your instincts. Look at some great leaders: they’re [...]

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Are You Guilty of One-Size-Life-Fits-All Thinking?

January 9, 2013

I was talking to my older brother the other day, about startups, siblings, raising children, and he shocked me, right in the middle of an otherwise smooth conversation, with this:  Now you’re guilty of one-size-life-thinking. You do that way too much. You want everybody to do things the way you did.  That took me aback. [...]

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A Conflict-Free Organization is Near Death. Really?

December 4, 2012

I saw an interesting post on Inc.com last week, with a title that was hard to resist: A conflct-free organization isn’t great. It’s near death. Hmm … there’s one to think about. It was posted by “serial CEO” Margaret Heffernan.  Margaret had spent a day at a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London. Here’s [...]

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10 Ways to Be Smart in Business Discussions

November 29, 2012

Listen.  Look at the eyes of the person talking.  Don’t be thinking about how to interrupt and make your point; absorb that person’s point first.  Keep your mind open. Smart people don’t win arguments; they gain insight. Let your argument go.  Acknowledge points made by others. Absorb those points. Get them. Get them before you [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut, Music, and Proof of God

October 16, 2012

(I went hiking in some beautiful mountains over the weekend, with one of my daughters, and decided to repost this one from 2007, just slightly changed. I can’t believe it’s been more than five years since this was first posted. I feel like it’s as timely as ever.)  “If I should ever die, God forbid, [...]

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Good Advice Often Makes Bad Things Happen

August 15, 2012

Mike Myatt, who writes on leadership, says it straight. In a post titled Really Bad Advice, he first sets the scene: I just finished reading an article where the author (a self professed innovation guru) recommended strategy be aligned with capability, and that to allow ambition to exceed capability is a nothing short of a [...]

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Hooray the Late ’60s Are Finally Winning

July 19, 2012

No surprise to me: Alexandra Levit reports on Amex OPEN that big-company CEOs are “abandoning command and control.” IBM studied more than 1,700 chief executive officers from 64 countries and 18 industries. Of course. Look around. You’ll see complaining sometimes about alleged millennials, but all they’re doing is wanting people to care what they think. [...]

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5 Traits of A Great Startup CEO

July 18, 2012

I’ve been meaning to post about Jason Baptiste’s 14 Ways To Be A Great Startup CEO for a while now. With so much myth and misunderstanding slung around the web as advice on entrepreneurship, it’s unusual to see 14 good points in a row on this topic. I’m highlighting my five favorites here, but all 14 are [...]

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