Growthink Blog

JULY 19, 2017

I regularly speak with entrepreneurs and executives grappling with these "the world is passing me by" kind of forces and challenges, and I am both impressed and dismayed by the leadership and strategic choices that they try to make to save their businesses from them.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Prior to Worklife, Dave was a CEO coach, leadership trainer and culture consultant to some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing technology companies. — Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Assistants, whether a team parent or team manager are given responsibilities. For entrepreneurs this is equally important – remember your team looks to you for guidance and leadership and inspiring them to give their best is a critical part of the job. Coach inspires. We all know the old trope of the locker room speech at half time.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 11, 2016

Cyndi understands what this special group of business leaders needs when it comes to marketing their business, managing their operations and accomplishing their goals. Cyndi understands what this special group of business leaders needs when it comes to marketing their business, managing their operations and accomplishing their goals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

How have you managed your own psychology and how have you managed to kind of maintain the equanimity that's needed to lead a company during these times? And that disappointment, I think that is the biggest lift for me right now is to manage my own disappointment. Jake Soberal : So I feel like I'm in a pretty privileged spot.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 22, 2010

In the last year running our healthcare company, we had a major hurricane and one of the worst ice storms in North Carolina history both within about five months. Manage overhead carefully. Watch and manage your inventories carefully. While we survived this double whammy, many small businesses did not. One business owner.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Manageable. Your company leadership (small business or fortune 100) will help you identify business objectives for your online existence. Analyzing people just from North Carolina (because there was an ad campaign targeted just to NC). The objectives must be DUMB : Doable. Understandable. Beneficial.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2019

But today’s midlevel manager or entrepreneur doesn’t necessarily have time to be as creative as they want. You are in Asheville, North Carolina. John Jantsch: I just visited there with my wife and we canoed the north broad right through Biltmore and went up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Is that right?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Though a quarter of 194 investors surveyed in June by North Carolina State University have been a victim of fraudulent companies, the study also discovered what careful investors look out for to protect themselves. In the same way, having passion won’t automatically make you a great people manager. Hiring and onboarding.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

An operations management lecturer at the University of Leeds decided to ask Boston residents what they wanted from a smart city, and the answer was a bit surprising. Cary, North Carolina surveys its residents every other year about various topics and the so-called barriers to citizen involvement rarely change. Have you asked?

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