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Why Psychological Safety Matters: 16 Ways To Make It Okay For People To Tell The Truth And Take Risks

YoungUpstarts

There are many reasons we want employees to feel psychologically safe. Employees are closest to operations. The only way for a company to get better and stay competitive is to cultivate a culture where employees regularly collaborate, communicate, and innovate. This is where new and good ideas come from.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

The “benevolent” part means always putting the entity, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. With both OfficeMax and Max-Wellness, being the benevolent dictator provided the critical leadership necessary to take an idea and transform it into reality as fast as possible. If you don’t ask, you won’t get.

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Nonprofit Organizations: How They Work and What They Do

Board Effect

Often, nonprofits have an executive director that leads teams of employees and volunteers to get the work done. From a leadership standpoint, the board of directors must hold meetings at least annually. Each nonprofit established a board of directors to oversee the organization. How Do Nonprofits Work?

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Twelve Ways To Use Entrepreneurial Thinking To Help Our Schools

YoungUpstarts

It’s time for the nation’s education leaders to start operating like scrappy entrepreneurs. The “benevolent” part means doing the right thing for the right reasons, for all stakeholders — in education, this means your teachers and other school employees, your students, their parents, etc. The same is true in education.

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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

by Jeff McManus, author of “ Growing Weeders Into Leaders: Leadership Lessons from the Ground Up “ The difference between employees who approach their job as drudgery and those workers who enthusiastically contribute isn’t just about work ethic and matching skills to tasks. My lessons in leadership took years to develop.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 22-Investment in Employees. 5- Two things.