CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Understanding the Minneapolis Business Landscape A Minneapolis Business Coach for Entrepreneurs offers much more than generic advice. Community Connections : Their established local network opens doors for entrepreneurs in terms of partnerships and resources.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Leadership development training days aren’t optional; They are essential for great teams. Engaging and effective leadership development days are a critical necessity for sustaining your organizational success and growing your people. However, merely conducting a training day is not enough.

Training 188

Training Leadership ROI Participative 188

Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. Five Types of Leadership. Develop Your Leadership Around Four Activities.

Leadership 276

Leadership Entrepreneur CFO Objective 276

Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2019

The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovation—innovation in management and organizing production. Entrepreneurs drawn from every level of society are the primary drivers of this creative destruction. But they are seldom the easiest of heroes, or the nicest.

Entrepreneur 237

Entrepreneur Creativity Long-term Innovation 237

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. All companies and entrepreneurs have to send invoices sometimes.

Leadership Development 190

Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 190

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Gallup's solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. and global productivity will go up or down. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think.

Blue Ocean Strategy 281

Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Books Leadership 281

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Guest post from Karlin Sloan: As a leadership development consultant, I have spent my career with people in business, NGOs, government, and not-for-profits who are focused, competent, talented and who have a deep sense of their personal power to impact those around them. There is no more important time for inspiring leadership.

Tips 392

Tips Leadership Globalization Open-book 392

Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Individuals or partners develop a plan and iterate as new information arises. Models are developed, scrutinized, and refined. I've learned that from my nearly forty years of working with scientists and clinicians to transform inventions into successful commercial products. Develop living plans that are regularly updated.

Tips 351

Tips Due Diligence Biotechnology Entrepreneur 351

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Leadership coaching legends David Noble and Carol Kauffman show you how with their innovative new framework—MOVE—which equips you with the tactics you need to slow down high-stakes situations before they speed you up. You can, too.

Books 337

Books Leadership Tactics Library 337

Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

I think many entrepreneurs get into trouble simply because they don’t understand their financial statements, of which the balance sheet and the profit and loss statement are the most important. Any entrepreneur who does not understand financial statements is in great danger.”. If you know your numbers, you know your business.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Leadership Advice Mentor 293

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. Radhika Dutt.

Productivity 109

Productivity Products Development Short-term 109

Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2021. The Power of Clarity : Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment by Ann Latham. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles. Trust is, however, an elusive, even mushy, concept.

Books 312

Books Library Leadership PR 312

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to the same study , expenditures on leadership development programs have decreased by about 10%. What is horrifying to note is that organizations that fail to develop employee skills are setting themselves up for disaster. Leadership development is the most ignored aspect for several reasons.

Leadership Development 216

Leadership Development Development Leadership Human Capital 216

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This is a guest post by Jonathan Moules author of The Rebel Entrepreneur. There is a dirty little secret that most famous entrepreneurs and those that back the start-up culture prefer not to tell you—success in business is a minority sport. This figure is about the same across developed nations, according to the OECD.

Entrepreneur 281

Entrepreneur Price Sports Media 281

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 16, 2013

The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit. Leadership' GO FOR IT - NOW!!

Entrepreneur 378

Entrepreneur Apparel Ryan Software 378

Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

Keeping up with the competition in today’s fast-paced business world calls for constant learning and development. Professional development has emerged as a vital tool for business owners and engineers alike to enhance their skills, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success.

Development 93

Development Succession Power Engineering 93

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

Entrepreneur 382

Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 382

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s not about replacing action, which we know is a necessary leadership ingredient. They think of it as developing a companion habit that celebrates THINKING rather than DOING. As a leader, you have the power and influence to help your team members develop new habits that can make them more productive. This is different.

Tactics 236

Tactics Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 236

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership.

Leadership 358

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Loyalty Open-book 358

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

The answer is probably ‘yes’, and the most successful entrepreneurs know that. If you can continually pinpoint the weaknesses of your company and your leadership skills, then you’ll be able to continually develop solutions which improve your business. Could you be a better entrepreneur? Do your research.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Delegation Learning-by-Doing Training 104

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

One thing that many young professionals don’t understand about the job market is that leadership plays a huge role in getting hired. If you’re worried about finding the right job early in your career, focus on leadership. Every day, there are hundreds of hidden opportunities to develop leadership skills.

Career 245

Career Skills Development Leadership 245

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Without a quality product, your brand will fall short of its true potential. Customers are quick to recommend a quality product when they find one, but they are also quick to leave bad reviews unless they are satisfied. To help to improve the quality of your products and services, focus on these five areas. Test your products.

Quality 97

Quality Productivity Products Strategy 97

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. We figure it might provide some gift-giving ideas for anyone who is stuck!

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Open-book 150

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. They’re risk mitigators.

CFO 362

CFO Sharpe Engineering Learning-by-Doing 362

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The life of an entrepreneur is many things, but relaxed and leisurely it is not. Rarely do entrepreneurs get to enjoy downtime in the same way that their salaried peers do. The entrepreneurial mind is never at rest and is constantly striving for new challenges and new ways in which to hone its skills while developing new ones.

Entrepreneur 67

Entrepreneur Productivity Products Efficiency 67

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

An MBA program provides a risk-free space to explore ideas and develop core business skills in an immersive community. In addition to entrepreneurship-specific careers, you may find jobs as research and development specialists, general managers, and sales representatives. But they need more than just a great product to succeed.

Supply Chain 110

Supply Chain Entrepreneur COO Career 110

Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion-dollar products at all. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology.

Finance 381

Finance Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Kleiner 381

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2012

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. I was a “corporate guy” for so many years (28 to be exact), and while I thought I knew what it was really like to “think like an entrepreneur”, it turns out I really didn’t know.

Entrepreneur 419

Entrepreneur BHAG Learning-by-Doing Productivity 419

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Eisenmann introduces the Diamond-and-Square framework to help aspiring entrepreneurs know whether they have actually identified an attractive opportunity and determine what types of resources are required to successfully capitalize on it. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure.

Early Adopters 207

Early Adopters Entrepreneur Mass Marketing Marketing 207

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

Welcome to the May edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. Does social media play a role in developing high performance? This post explores the concept. Jennifer V.

Leadership Development 244

Leadership Development Development Leadership Blog 244

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard. The fried clams won.

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Guest post from Royston Guest: Growing and developing is a two-way partnership between the individual and the business. As part of this ‘soft contract’ of growth and development are three core principles which underpin its very essence, and which results in a win-win for all involved. #1

Training 199

Training Development Succession Self-aware 199

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s also a great way to prepare people for leadership. And you can solve it in four surprisingly simple ways. * * * Charlie Gilkey is an author, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur who specializes in productivity and teamwork. In closing, remember that your team doesn’t have a “somebody” problem—it has a decision-making problem.

Teamwork 270

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Tools Team 270

N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. . Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question. Familiarity with your product with a finger on the competition.

Execution 392

Execution Company Charisma Constraint 392

Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The company had been rolling out one product after another without any guiding rationale other than they were “innovative.” Nadella proposed that Microsoft move beyond its most profitable product, Windows, in favor of chasing a cloud dream, even though Amazon had a four-year head start. But there was much more than that.

Innovation 351

Innovation Engineering Incubator Bottom-up 351

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65