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Leading Thoughts for February 8, 2024

Leading Blog

Entrepreneur Liz Elting on fine is not fine: “This experience reinforced to me the importance of one-on-ones and taught me that as we grew, we needed to institute skip-level meetings so that our employees knew they were welcome to speak with their boss’s boss. Source: Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World II.

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4 Business Tips Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know to Survive During and Post COVID-19

Strategy Driven

For entrepreneurs, running and operating a healthy business can be challenging during these unprecedented times. To keep your business thriving and on track, all the tips above will ensure you have all bases covered, helping to boost morale, productivity and ensure staff and customers are kept safe and protected during and post COVID-19.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. Nadella championed numerous innovation programs, including allocating physical spaces for Microsoft employees to work with local entrepreneurs, creating accelerators to incubate new businesses, and hosting a global hackathon that became one of the largest innovation events in the world.

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Do We Give Startups A Free Pass On Ethical Behavior?

The Horizons Tracker

Last, but not least, each volunteer was asked to say how acceptable it would be for the firm to engage in morally questionable activities, such as hurting the environment, misusing customer data, adopting poor financial practices, or treating workers poorly. A halo effect. The dark side of entrepreneurship.

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November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Bill explains: “ October is National Women’s Small Business Month, a time for us to reflect on and appreciate the work of women entrepreneurs in this country and all the contributions they’ve made. Here are 10 trends we’re seeing during COVID-19 that show better self-awareness, other-awareness, and moral awareness. Engagement.

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Are Startups Key To Tackling The Climate Crisis?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so for businesses that are able to portray the climate crisis as a key moral issue of our times. “We call these industries ‘moral markets,'” the authors say. “And this really got us thinking about how we could help environmental entrepreneurs succeed.”

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Tapping The Entrepreneur in All of Us

Lead Change Blog

What successful leaders do instead is establish guidelines and a moral compass by setting high standards—and then step back and lead by example, giving those guidelines and standards a chance to take root. It squelches the human spirit, individual initiative and ideas, and it leaves people without a real stake in the company or themselves.