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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

A few years ago he publicly set down his core Principles for living, managing, and investing. Bridgewater uses these codified rules for recruiting, training, and most important, managing the firm’s culture. It’s harder but possible to educate people in how to manage others. Managers almost always jump to proximate causes (i.e.,

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. At Stripe, all 170 employees have open access to every email sent in the company – which makes for a very transparent company – but a very crowded inbox.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

We were not forced to lay anyone off and actually added employees during the pandemic. Thankfully our employees have been wonderful during these challenging times, but keeping morale and positive energy during these crazy times has also been challenging. Photo Credit: Justin A. We are so proud of them all. 15- WhitePaper launch.

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Addicted to Ruthless Efficiency

OnlyOnce

Two things popped up in the last few days that are making it clear to me that there’s another issue all of us — whether you’re a CEO or CXO or an entry level employee — will face. We’ve become much more efficient in how we do our jobs and run our lives. Sometimes I even get one done in 15 minutes.

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Entrepreneurs, Don't Just Create Products or Services?Create a Legacy!

Small Business Force

He designed and built houses, managed the construction of significant office buildings, even built two stadiums. Why do folks flock to a store like Stew Leonard's in Connecticut? To do that you have to build a company that is founded to be customer-sensitive and employee-focused. My Dad was a builder.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Click here to make a reservation.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

Twenty books and forty years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented. And 40 years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the management guru industry. It's a turn on for our own employees. And they've got turned on employees. It's not a strategy.