Fri.Jan 01, 2021

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7 Ways To Manage Healthy Internal Business Conflicts

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business professionals I know will go to great lengths to take a neutral position on internal business conflicts, on the assumption that all conflict is bad for the company as well as their political future. In my experience, a level of disagreement among key team members is a sign of a healthy organization, allowing it to survive and prosper in this age of multiple disruptive trends.

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A Wake-up Call For Leaders Who Don’t Get Enough Sleep

YFS Magazine

Most leaders don't get enough sleep. We burn the candle at both ends. However, sleep deprivation yields short- and long-term consequences.

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Freelancers vs. Employees — Which Option Is Best For My Startup?

Up and Running

The global recession has made saving money a priority for all types of businesses, but none more so than the cash-strapped startup. However, as a startup owner, you don’t have to let the rocky economic landscape deter you from hiring the best people you need to help you achieve your vision. With a cost-conscious mindset that also recognizes the value of quality work, how do you balance your need to hire employees and stay within your budget?

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Protected: The Spiritual Manager: Seeking Salvation in a Corporate World

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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How to Mitigate Risk With a Risk Burndown

Up and Running

Businesses often hold postmortem meetings to reflect on projects, initiatives, or events with unfortunate outcomes. It’s a great learning opportunity, but it’s not always enough. After all, no one can course-correct in retrospect. And despite how commonplace meetings are ( 23 hours a week for executives), 75% of people aren’t sure how to conduct or participate in them.

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What I Ate on My Weight Loss Journey of 2020

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote about my weight loss journey of the past 18 months where I lost 65 pounds in 18 months with no gimmicks or fads. No paleo, keto, intermittent fasting?—?just sensible eating. If you didn’t read the post it might be worth clicking on the above link. Some simple advice I have: Eating matters 10x more than working out. Both are important but as they say “you can’t outrun your fork.

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