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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

A side conversation can lead to the next big idea or micro-innovation, and a shared laugh can forge a bond stronger than any Slack thread. Incubator process to come up with and pitch practical ideas to the executive team. Your team works with a few of your strategic initiatives and uses our Courageous Cultures I.D.E.A.

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurial communities can incubate nascent technologies and ventures through accelerator programs and crowdfunding. Banks can create green bonds and other novel forms of investing in sustainable technologies. Universities and national laboratories can provide the basic research that drives new technologies.

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Making the Most of Timing Differences: Managing a Team of Procrastinators and Non-procrastinators

Great Leadership By Dan

If you are task driven, the incubation period for the procrastinator is time wasted. However, in interpersonal situations within the workplace where emotions speak to you, their vague message can be misinterpreted and responded to in ways that disrupt bonds we have with co-workers.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Helena had dreamed of starting a nonprofit that would seek out, mentor, and support high-potential entrepreneurs in Latin America.

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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

Harvard Business Review

New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. Finding ways to involve young entrepreneurs in social causes, or to find the entrepreneurs among those volunteering to do good, can create bonds. Even more important than access to capital, some analysts say, is access to advice.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

If you know you have a tendency to play favorites, or at least avoid a certain team member because they aren’t your favorite, you must work on creating bonds. When Trevor Longino worked at an Orlando-based startup incubator, he was promoted from copywriter to VP of marketing within his first six months on the job.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.