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Digital Leadership During Global Upheaval

The Startup Magazine

However, looking at this change, we need to embrace digital leadership and take a stand in how we bring about this transformation. To capitalize on this increased demand, it’s evident that companies will need to fall back on their cybersecurity staff to provide the infrastructure they need for effective digital leadership.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

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6 Leadership Requirements For Every Startup Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A real business requires leadership – thought leadership to attract customers and mind share, as well as people leadership around a team, partners, and investors. As pointed out in a classic book by leadership expert Herminia Ibarra, very few people are born knowing how to “ Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader.”

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8 Leadership Actions Guaranteed To Improve Team Trust

Startup Professionals Musings

He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. The best entrepreneur leaders today build trusting cultures by being warm, competent, approachable, and relaxed. They favor a “leadership by all” culture. So, how do you build trust?

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. When business performance is non-positive, every employee, at every level, will work super-duper hard to look at every dimension of data to find any semblance of good news (no matter how small). To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence).

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6 Ways To Develop A Business To Support Your Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

A real business requires leadership – thought leadership to attract customers and mind share, as well as people leadership around a team, partners, and investors. As pointed out in a classic book by leadership expert Herminia Ibarra, very few people are born knowing how to “ Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader.”

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What I learned about leadership from watching ‘The Walking Dead’

The Next Web

From the very beginning, I’ve been struck by how similar is the plight of Rick—the blue-steely-eyed sheriff’s deputy bravely leading his band of non-zombies—to my own experience co-founding my startup Speek, where for the past year-and-a-half we’ve been working to make mobile conference calls easy, and building a team and a culture in the process.