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How Hard Do Company Founders Really Work?

Harvard Business Review

The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” ” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. That may be because I am a founding CEO. So how much devotion to the job is “normal” for a founder?

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

Leading Blog

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). The first is panic.

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