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5 Strategies To Go From CXO/CEO/ COO/CFO to Successful Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Career Development Change Management Self Leadership Value Creation Are you a corporate refugee or executive in transition who thought the grass was greener on the entrepreneurial side of the fence, only to find out it wasn’t as easy as you expected? It’s an interesting problem.

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The Unexpected Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

As an entrepreneur, I have worked tirelessly to regain some semblance of comfort and financial security. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. Very demanding unending responsibilities.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

Thirteen Signs of a Disengaged Employee (Infographic) Entrepreneur, June 2014. Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. How to be Happy at Work Business Insider, July 2014.

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How to Lead Yourself When the Boss is Not Around

Great Leadership By Dan

Sure, everyone – even entrepreneurs and CEOs answer to someone. In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. After all, the role of “manager” must have been invented for a reason, right? They weren’t kidding.

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Why Startups Need To Get The Founding Team Right

The Horizons Tracker

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake. Who would be CFO or COO?

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