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Female Entrepreneurs Still Suffer From Implicit Bias

The Horizons Tracker

Female entrepreneurs pursuing innovative business ventures face a significant hurdle in securing funding due to unconscious bias exhibited by investors, as revealed by a study conducted by Northeastern University. The study highlights a particular instance that exemplifies the implicit biases at play. You are lying to people.”

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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobson

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. He subsequently created five publicly traded companies—United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO, and XPO’s two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. Five Types of Leadership. Develop Your Leadership Around Four Activities. Build Trust 2.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Come Up for Air : How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? You can, too.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. You were born to be an entrepreneur. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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William Donaldson on Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

There are leaders and there are entrepreneurs, but not all leaders are entrepreneurs, and not all entrepreneurs are leaders. Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves.