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Leadership

[lee-der-ship]
/// 1. The ability to organize, motivate, and hold accountable both oneself and others in the pursuit of making ideas happen /// 2. The capacity to balance a sacred long-term vision with the imperative needs of everyday execution.

3 Ways to Fight Apathy

When it comes to collaboration, one of our greatest fears is often confrontation. But prolonged apathy can be even more dangerous.

What Should You Start/Stop/Continue Doing?

Feedback exchange needs to be simple and action-oriented. We outline a streamlined, easy-to-implement version of the standard “review process.”
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Strive for the IKEA Effect

Instilling a do-it-yourself ethos in your team, and even your customer base, can encourage ownership and engagement.

Questions All Young Entrepreneurs Should Ask

These days, ideas mean business. We examine three questions you'll want to ask yourself when approaching your ideas as an entrepreneur.
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Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work

It's easy to fall into a pattern of incessantly checking business-related stats to soothe our anxieties. But how much data tracking is too much?

Avoid The Trap of Business Narcissism

When it comes to our own lives, we are often prone to thinking that every calamity or challenge that we encounter is a one-off, or "special case".

Care for Chemistry Before People

Hiring great people is important. But we don't work in a vacuum. Tending to the chemistry of your team is crucial for long-term success.

Focus on Results, Not Time

More hours spent at the office doesn't necessarily mean more things accomplished. We look at shifting the perspective from clock-time to results-time.

Taking A Team’s Temperature

The chemistry of a creative team is absolutely critical for making ideas happen. Yet when a problem is brewing, our tendency is often to block it out.

Stop Focusing on Visionaries

The vast majority of new products fail; and the root of the problem is the visionary’s tendency to focus on fellow visionaries.

Question Your Elders

While we don't want to waste our time reinventing the wheel, it's also true that new insights often question the conventional wisdom of our elders.

Rely on Initiative, Not Experience

One’s past experience is typically regarded as the best indication of future success. But is it really the best way to judge a candidate?