Kim and Todd Saxton: The power of inflection points in your venture journey
Losing a key team member or a major customer, or having a product fail in the field, can lead to significant declines in revenue, customer trust and optimism.
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Gallup: Just 2 in 10 U.S. employees have work ‘best friend’
The Gallup survey found a strong link between workers with best friends on the job and profitability, safety, inventory control and retention.
Garrett Mintz: Generous PTO can’t overcome lack of leadership
Overall, it seems there isn’t one work culture that is better than others. However, to be in the best work situation, I believe it starts and ends with having great leadership.
Ilya Rekhter: Success is more than having a great idea
If an idea is truly great, someone has likely thought of it before but might have hit a roadblock or moved on to something else. The real opportunity lies in overcoming those initial obstacles and finding product-market fit.
Samatha Julka: As leaders, we must be aware of unintended impact
My colleagues’ intention was to help, but the impact was hurt feelings.
Angie Stocklin: How do you activate your core values? Here’s an example
The constant stream of small bites made the core value tangible and kept it at the top of our team’s mind, while the leadership team’s participation in these activities signaled importance to the rest of the team.
Kristen Cooper: Success can—and should—be whatever you want
We benchmark ourselves by those who have been extended different opportunities and privileges. Yet, too often, we feel shame and disappointment for not achieving what our peers have accomplished.
Mandy Haskett: Here’s a tool to help take control of challenges
When things feel challenging, it’s important to recall how that emotion shapes (and sometimes skews) our reality.
Tiffany Sauder: Drop perfection. Instead, seek vulnerability.
As a young businesswoman, I put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to be perfect. Perfectly prepared. Perfectly dressed. Perfectly presented. Perfectly on time.
Samantha Julka: As leaders, we need to better promote relational work
Organizations push high volumes of personal (focus) and transactional (collaborative) work, often at the expense of relational (connection) work. And it’s gotten worse since the pandemic.
Kim & Todd Saxton: A successful pitch isn’t always about money
Entrepreneurs have to constantly pitch different things to different people at different stages in the life of their ventures.
Ilya Rekhter: Bootstrapped: From zero funding to Ford acquisition
My last startup, DoubleMap, was bootstrapped, meaning that we raised zero dollars from inception to our eventual sale to Ford. So venture capital isn’t the only path to a successful outcome.
Liz Malatestinic: About to fire that complainer? Maybe think again
The same laws that prohibit discrimination in employment also make it clear that retaliating against someone for complaining about workplace discrimination or for participating in any discrimination proceeding is just as illegal as discrimination itself.
For data-driven leadership, start with transparency
It’s not enough to give people access to the data; they must also be able to make sense of it.
Angie Stocklin: Company culture is not pingpong, free lunches
I am a firm believer that every company needs an identifiable north star in the form of a mission, vision or purpose statement.
Tim Cook: It’s time to hush the quiet quitting catchphrase
As destructive as I find the stereotypes it promotes, the idea of quiet quitting seems to align a bit too cozily with a post-COVID world.
Kristen Cooper: How to keep women founders, investors from leaving
Indiana needs to allocate investment dollars specifically allocated for women similarly to how states like New York created a Minority and Women-Owned Business Investment Fund.
How Indiana can make its next tech advance
What can Indiana do to compete and win on an international level?
Kim and Todd Saxton: When should startups build rather than buy?
The choice to vertically integrate comes down to four factors, including the source of competitive advantage and strategic goals, the risks of outsourcing, the importance of technical capabilities, and costs.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: Nonverbals: What they see is what they hear
Whether you are giving a speech or presentation to a live or virtual audience, the adage is true that actions speak louder than words.