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10 years in the Bay Area – what I’ve learned

Andrew Chen

January 2007. Ten years ago this week, I took a long, cloudy drive from Seattle to Silicon Valley on Highway 1 to start a new job and new life. I was barely 24 years old, in a hurry to change the world, and eager to begin my first day at MDV, a Silicon Valley venture firm, as their new Entrepreneur-in-Residence. It was 2007, and the iPhone hadn’t been released yet, YCombinator was just getting started, and MySpace was still bigger than Facebook.

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10 Ways to be Angry Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Leaders who suppress anger live with the ponderous weight of things unsaid. Embrace the power of letting yourself be angry. Expression: Anger isn’t the main issue, expression is.

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Who Performs Better At Work, Introverts Or Extroverts?

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Like most ways of being, introversion or extroversion ( properly, extraversion) is not absolute. Yet people tend to form an identity around this label, ostracizing the other for being too outgoing in the case of extroverts, or too quiet in the case of introverts. Introversion is also often confused with shyness, but shyness is just a fear of social judgement.

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Are You Playing Offense or Defense?

Kevin Eikenberry

I recently read this question somewhere, and it stuck with me. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I was that it is a valid question for us to ask as individuals and as leaders. Are you playing offense or defense? Like in sports, where you can have a strength in offense or […]. The post Are You Playing Offense or Defense? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Your Average CAC is Lying to You -- What to do Instead

Brian Balfour

I recently wrote about the most common mistakes with CAC (customer acquisition cost) that can derail growth efforts before you even get started because CAC is a metric that's foundational to growth strategy. In this post, we'll look at the faulty myth of "Average CAC," and the most meaningful CAC segmentations that you should be paying attention to instead.

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10 Ways to be Angry Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Leaders who suppress anger live with the ponderous weight of things unsaid. Embrace the power of letting yourself be angry. Expression: Anger isn’t the main issue, expression is.

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The Single Most Transformative Force in Leadership

Leadership Freak

The single most transformative force in leadership is a conversation. Conversations with leaders, authors, and coaching clients changed me most in 2016. It’s that way every year. We grow in community, not isolation.

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How to Uncover and Deliver Your Greatest Value as a Leader

Leadership Freak

We go to seminars and workshops and listen to successful people talk about their success. But the things that change us most are struggle, failure, adversity, and endurance.

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How to Uncover and Deliver Your Greatest Value as a Leader

Leadership Freak

We go to seminars and workshops and listen to successful people talk about their success. But the things that change us most are struggle, failure, adversity, and endurance.

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3 Power Questions that Lead Others to a Happy New Year

Leadership Freak

Those who seek happiness by avoiding discomfort, meet dissatisfaction along the way. Meaningful discomfort is part of happiness. 4 reasons people end up halfhearted and fully unhappy: Too many options.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

Kevin Eikenberry

By Greg Steinmetz Before I read this book, I might have had a couple of guesses at the richest man who ever lived; but I wouldn’t have guessed Jacob Fugger. The author makes the assertion based comparing a person’s net worth to the size of the economy he operated in. By this measure (his net […]. The post The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Five Daily Decisions

Kevin Eikenberry

We spend a lot of time on the BIG decisions in our lives – where we work, where we live, who we spend our lives with… And while these are obviously significant and extremely important, these aren’t the only important decisions we are making. In fact, the daily decisions we make often without even thinking, […]. The post Five Daily Decisions appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The 3 Most Read Leadership Freak Blogs of 2016

Leadership Freak

#1 – How Any Leader Can Kickstart and Land a Powerful Conversation You look for an escape when blabbing leaders arrive. But a leader skilled at powerful conversations is a thing of beauty.

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The 3 Most Read Leadership Freak Blogs of 2016

Leadership Freak

#1 – How Any Leader Can Kickstart and Land a Powerful Conversation You look for an escape when blabbing leaders arrive. But a leader skilled at powerful conversations is a thing of beauty.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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5 Insights I Learned From Top Authors in 2016

Leadership Freak

If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter.

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5 Insights I Learned From Top Authors in 2016

Leadership Freak

If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter.

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The Longer you Work at Improving the Same Thing, the Fewer Improvements you Make

Leadership Freak

Gold Medal sprinters work endless hours to shave a millisecond off their time. At the beginning, they made giant strides.

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The Longer you Work at Improving the Same Thing, the Fewer Improvements you Make

Leadership Freak

Gold Medal sprinters work endless hours to shave a millisecond off their time. At the beginning, they made giant strides.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Leading Through Core Values with Dina Dwyer-Owens

Kevin Eikenberry

Like most companies, the Dwyer Group has an official mission statement and vision; however, unlike most companies, they also have a Code of Values that each employee is urged to know and follow by heart. (Associates even carry a Code of Values card so that they think about them at all times!) In this episode, […]. The post Leading Through Core Values with Dina Dwyer-Owens appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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