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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

It may become nearly impossible to create a culture of committed team members and powerful relationships at work. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think. The Song of Significance : A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin What if we could create the best job someone ever had?

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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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Employee Engagement: 2010 Research Insights

Michael Lee Stallard

It may also be the case, however, that the pain level of remaining at some organizations has become so high that more workers have decided to leave of their own accord in hopes of making it as entrepreneurs or finding jobs down the road as the economy recovers. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Five myths about leadership

Lead on Purpose

The Entrepreneur Myth: People may be buying what somebody is selling (or saying), but they are not necessarily buying into his leadership or vision. To succeed you need to build consensus and exert positive influence on the teams you work with. Influential leadership is about influencing people to follow.

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Next Level Tips for Women Leaders

Next Level Blog

  Here are the first couple of questions to give you a flavor of what we covered: How does next-level leadership apply to women entrepreneurs? What are some typical habits you have seen that entrepreneurs need to let go of? That can be a particular challenge for entrepreneurs who are trying to do it all.

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Apply Now to be Recognized as a 2011 Top Small Company Workplace.

Next Level Blog

Magazine , the premier publication for entrepreneurs and business owners. Magazine Winning Workplaces is collaborating with Inc. to recognize "Top Small Company Workplaces" that have built corporate cultures that foster a productive work environment and satisfied employees. The winners will be featured in the June 2011 issue of Inc.

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