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Baby Boomers: Redefine Happiness in Work and Life

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Self Governance |
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 23:39

Jody B. Miller, CEO, C2C Executive Search & Strategic Management

We’re hearing a lot these days about how Millennials are changing the workplace as they prioritize happiness and job satisfaction over simply holding a company position. Millennials aren’t the only ones craving that kind of freedom, though. Baby Boomers have craved it for decades. The difference is that many of us haven’t felt empowered enough to claim it. Why is that? And how can we change it?

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Are You SURE You're Telling a Story?

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Dianna Booher |
Small Business - Self Governance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management - Sales |
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 23:12

Could you be confusing that favorite story with an anecdote? Before I mention why it matters, you’re probably wondering why so many blogs and books in the last few years have urged you to learn to tell a great story. Here’s why.

Stories make things stick. CEOs, entertainers, professional speakers, trainers, and leaders have learned that data, marketing messages, instructions, procedures, or just about any kind of information burrows into the brain better and stays longer when wrapped in a good story.

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Breaking the Paper Ceiling: Why Female Executives Can and Should Receive More VC Funding

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Self Governance - Leadership |
Fri, 11/17/2017 - 01:27

Terri Maxwell, CEO, Share on Purpose

When it comes to executive startup funding, the ceiling for female executives isn’t made of glass – it’s made of paper, the paper used to make money. And if you follow the money – as in the nearly $60 billion venture capitalists invested in 2016 – the vast majority of investment dollars went to male-founded companies. In fact, men received in excess of 16 times more funding than women last year.

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Naked Autocracy - A Key Leadership Competency For The Digital Age

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Leadership |
Mon, 11/13/2017 - 23:41

Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO, The Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre

What do Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Lee Kuan Yew have in common? If you’re thinking they each created a better future through their remarkable leadership in business and society, you would be correct. If you’re also thinking their leadership style was more autocratic than democratic, that would be correct too. What? Autocratic leadership creates a better future? Could it really be true?

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Bringing a Midwestern approach to software sales in Silicon Valley

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Entrepreneurship - Sales |
Sat, 11/11/2017 - 00:22

Chris Rothstein, CEO & Co-founder, Groove.co

My journey to becoming a Silicon Valley-based tech founder wasn’t the typical path. Growing up in a farm town in Minnesota, my exposure to the business world was very different than the operations of Silicon Valley. My father owned a tractor dealership, and he was my prime model for how to do business. Though I am a long way from Minnesota now, there are still many lessons that I learned at my father’s tractor dealership that I have brought with me to Silicon Valley.