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Leadership is More Than a Memo

Steve Blank

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Among other things the book reminded me how important leadership is in setting startup culture – both consciously and implicitly. And back then they were all men.)

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How One Woman’s Flat Tire Inspired A Global Trucking Movement

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “. When her mother passed away near Ellen’s 19th birthday, Ellen picked up the leadership encouragement torch and drove forward. She continues to attract fellow visionaries from global corporations to guide and fuel her vehicle for helping women. Two hours?”.

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “ Mediocre Mike was a card shark. So what does any of this have to do with leadership failure? You wouldn’t need to be a member of Mensa to calculate the cost to his company of Mediocre Mike’s leadership failure. He lived for the weekends.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! Period, full-stop.

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Roofing Exec by Day, Firefighter by Night – Joe’s Timely Leadership Lessons

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “ Eddie scaled the catwalk, looked back and heard a loud boom. Joe brought a different style of leadership to bear. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives.

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[INTERVIEW] Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., Author And Top Global Leadership Speaker On Introverts

YoungUpstarts

We still live in a world where the extroverted “ideal” shapes many aspects of leadership in our workplace. One introverted engineer client told me he would never be a manager in his company. Bring senior leadership into the conversation – This will ensure that introvert inclusion becomes an organizational priority.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

It’s not leadership. The military has three of the four pieces of the puzzle you need: strategy, access to technology, leadership. Leadership was not the problem. Strategy, technology, leadership – those were fine. Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. It’s not technology.