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5 Leadership Lessons for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

The decision to become an entrepreneur comes with many responsibilities, challenges, and positive or negative financial consequences, depending on how well your planning and execution did. Entrepreneurs need to be able to lead their teams and motivate their employees. This strategy can be implemented by storytelling.

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Empathy-Driven Leadership: How to Be Compassionately Competitive in a For-Profit World

Leading Blog

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? This is the foundation of every good business model. What good is empathy in an uber-competitive, saturated marketplace where leaders need to capitalize on every opportunity to stand out?

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

So it shouldn’t be surprising when a new business model, such as ridesharing, disrupts existing systems and causes friction between entrepreneurs and local government officials, right? Answer: more public entrepreneurs. There is, however, a big problem with public entrepreneurs: there just aren’t enough of them.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

But as your business grows, the founder exits, and new leaders join the company, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

But as your business grows, the founder exits, and new leaders join the company, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

That is true, but these were very ambitious entrepreneurs who had been desperately searching for a winning startup idea for quite a while. They didn’t have to be good storytellers because their businesses spread virally and their products stood for themselves. Uber and Airbnb are different.

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