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Leaders Can Be Principled And High-Performing At The Same Time – Here’s How

YoungUpstarts

by Tarra Mitchell, author of “ The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, And Inspiring Total Team Engagement “. Do you ever look at your organization’s C-suite or read about the things high-profile people say in the news and wonder where the principled leaders are? If so, you’re not alone: systematic leadership failures are deeply troubling.

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6 Mindset Elements Required For Disruptive Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. So some entrepreneurs stick with incremental solutions, avoiding more transformational or adaptive solutions implying disruptive change.

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[ADV] Is The Chase Ink Business Credit Card Right for You?

YoungUpstarts

No one business credit card is right for everyone, but the Chase Ink Business credit card provides many options that work well for many businesses. When you apply for and choose a business credit card, there are a number of factors you will need to look at to determine what is right for you. Asking the right questions means you will get the solution that is right for how you will use your card, the way you want to invest in your business, and the potential benefits of each card.

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How to restore brand credibility after having f *d up publicly

The Next Web

Social media is a place for brands to amplify their stories, humanize themselves, and connect with the people that make them what they are. More recently, it’s also become a stage for consumers to take brands to task for their missteps. As a social strategist and creative on the agency side for the better part of a decade, I’ve seen my share of digital crises and the aftermath.

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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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Build a Better Business Profile: 7 Things You Need to Do

The Startup Magazine

At this point, you probably don’t need anyone to explain why you need a good LinkedIn company page or a fleshed-out Facebook business profile. The benefits of appearing on the world’s top B2B social media platforms are self-evident. Ditto for the benefits of prominent listings on popular business directory sites like Yelp and YP.com. What to include on your high-profile professional pages is another matter.

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Roger Bannister’s Sub-Four-Minute Mile

Feld Thoughts

If you are a runner, then I expect Sir Roger Bannister is one of your heroic figures (as he is one of mine.) He died today at 88. Enjoy his narration of the video of him running the first sub-four-minute mile. It’s delightful. I love his number (41) – a prime, and somehow signaling something about the first sub-four-minute mile, along with Chataway’s 42 ( the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.).

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 4, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges with their skills, creativity and innovation. Winners in each of 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony at 7 pm Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin, Salon AB.

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What I Say When a Founder Asks for Feedback

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The ecommerce industry could be a lot better — here’s how

The Next Web

Every single day hundreds, if not millions of websites get successfully launched. A good number of them are ecommerce stores that try to sell everything from pins to planes. But, only a handful of them taste the success of the notoriety of the famed ones like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and the likes. Almost every ecommerce entrepreneur begins his or her venture with the dazzling dream of becoming the next big giant.

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Top 25+ Staffing Agencies to Help You Hire Fast

Transformify

Most companies are shifting to in-house hiring, but sometimes using the services of a staffing agency saves time and cost. However, there are many staffing agencies out there, how to select the one that's best for you? Depending on the role - permanent, contract, temporary, hourly, you may need the services of a recruitment agency, employment agency, temporary staffing agency, freelance marketplace, etc.

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