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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Above: New technology has always captivated consumers! Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? And since I’m focused mostly on consumer companies – is there anything exciting happening? After all, if we’re “between” platforms, and there isn’t something as big as the iPhone coming up, is there anything interesting left?

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An Alternative Approach to Dealing with the Inevitable Team Conflict

Liquid Planner Leadership

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”—Babe Ruth ??. Among the many critical project success factors—detailed plans, accurate estimates, and clear communication—a strong, unified team is arguably one of the most important.

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Kim Cameron On Mastering Your 1-on-1 Meetings

15Five

What separates high performing organizations from all the rest? Research shows that quality 1-on-1 meetings — those indispensable conversations between managers and employees — are a huge factor! One-on-ones can range from dreaded, “check-the-box” status updates to energizing, even life-changing conversations. As we’ll see below, science shows the best conversations have several things in common.

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The Leader’s 12 Days of Christmas

Kevin Eikenberry

Christmas is almost here. And while you likely won’t go all “12 Days of Christmas” on your team (what would they do with turtle doves anyway?), you might be thinking about what you could give them this holiday season. I have some ideas for you that require no ribbon or […]. The post The Leader’s 12 Days of Christmas 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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New Results Using Old Methods is a Frustrating Myth

Leadership Freak

The only way to achieve greater success using old methods is to work harder. But doing more with less has a limited lifespan. Working harder only works when you aren’t working hard already.

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Scrumtisch of December 2018

Agile42

Last night the December 2018 edition of Berlin's official Scrum user group Scrumtisch took place in the agile42 Event Space. Daniel Lynn and Simon Sablowski introduced the agile42 coaching approach to the participants. They explained the five different coaching stances of an agile coach and had the participants practice coaching conversations and use the different stances in their conversations.

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Leadership Gift #2 – Choose Your Vision

Kevin Eikenberry

On Monday, I offered a shopping list of gifts leaders could give this Christmas season. In that post, I promised to detail each of these gifts as a part of a 12 Days of Christmas series. For Day 2, the shopping list suggests considering your leadership vision. Specifically, the Day 2 item on the list reads: […]. The post Leadership Gift #2 – Choose Your Vision appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Tips for Engaging with People Who Matter Most

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Rodger Dean Duncan to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of, “LeaderSHOP.

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How to Avoid Decreased Engagement for Tenured Employees

LSA Global

Employee Engagement Declines with Tenure. Unfortunately decreased engagement for tenured employees is the norm. Our latest employee engagement trends report showed engagement tends to decline with tenure. Longer-term employees are, on average, less engaged than your newer employees. Why Newer Employees are More Engaged. A new job can be both exhausting and exhilarating.

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Silicon Valley network effects, OKRs for your personal life, and more: Podcast Q&A with Product Hunt

Andrew Chen

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. The uniqueness of the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem, how network effects conspire to create a “rich get richer” situation for cities, and why new communication tools enabling distributed teams to work together across continents could mean that there will be n

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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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Leadership Gift #1 – Choose Your Values

Kevin Eikenberry

On Monday, I offered a shopping list of gifts leaders could give this Christmas season. In that post, I promised to detail each of these gifts as a part of a 12 Days of Christmas series. For Day 1, the shopping list suggests considering your leadership values. Specifically, the Day 1 item on the list reads: […]. The post Leadership Gift #1 – Choose Your Values appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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What’s Twice as Important as Technical Skill

Leadership Freak

The difference between top and average performers isn’t technical skill. Yes, in order to succeed you need technical skill.

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5 Sales Negotiation Traps to Avoid at All Costs

LSA Global

Sales Negotiation Traps that Make the Difference between Success and Failure. Sales negotiation traps can trip you up. No one wants to lose an important sales negotiation, but unless you are either very experienced or careful to avoid four common sales negotiation traps, you may emerge as less than a winner. And it has always been our contention that when there is an uneven conclusion or, worse, a clear loser, the sales negotiation has failed and will eventually have negative consequences for b

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Vantage Fit: A complete solution to your employee wellness program

Vantage Circle

Where are you spending money on for employee wellness program? Rolling out gym memberships? Giving out healthcare packages? Or some on-site health campaigns? How about an employee wellness app which solves this problem with being cost-effective at the same time? An app which lets you track your employees’ health, promotes engagement and offer incentives at the same time.

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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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Watch or Listen, Now You Can Decide

Kevin Eikenberry

For 30 months, I have been having conversations with the top leadership experts in the world, and many renowned and successful leaders too. And I have recorded those conversations to share them with others. That was (and is) the goal of The Remarkable Leadership Podcast; to bring the best leadership thinking to you at the […]. The post Watch or Listen, Now You Can Decide appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How a Jerk Revealed Her Purpose

Leadership Freak

On November 20, 2011, I had a car accident that landed me in the hospital for several weeks. I received a menu from food services every morning.

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Corporate Change Is Personal

LSA Global

Corporate Change Is Personal. Make no mistake, all corporate change is personal. It doesn’t matter whether the change benefits the company or what it promises to deliver. For anyone affected by the new ways of doing things, corporate change is personal. And, the more the changes portend to disrupt the current state of how and why work gets done, the more personal the change will be.

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The Path to Individual Transformation in the Workplace, Part One

BetterUp

by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, MD, Chief Innovation Officer, BetterUp. American corporations today spend an estimated $160B annually on learning and development initiatives aimed at transforming their organizations. Yet research shows that employees forget up to 75% of the material taught and revert back to old practices, wasting the bulk of that investment, with little progress made.

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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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Creating Meaningful Positive Reinforcement – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

This episode is in response to your direct feedback when I asked viewers in a previous episode to send in requests for topics that they wanted me to discuss. So today, I’m sharing how you can share meaningful and positive reinforcement, including WHY you should provide this to your team. Tweet it out: Everyone wants […]. The post Creating Meaningful Positive Reinforcement – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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3 Questions to a Decision When Things are Uncertain

Leadership Freak

Ambiguity is always present in a world filled with people, change, and opportunity. Only the dead are certain.

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Vantage Fit: A complete solution to your employee wellness program

Vantage Circle

Where are you spending money on for employee wellness program? Rolling out gym memberships? Giving out healthcare packages? Or some on-site health campaigns? How about an employee wellness app which solves this problem with being cost-effective at the same time? An app which lets you track your employees’ health, promotes engagement and offer incentives at the same time.

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Silicon Valley network effects, OKRs for your personal life, and more: Podcast Q&A with Product Hunt

Andrew Chen

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. The uniqueness of the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem, how network effects conspire to create a “rich get richer” situation for cities, and why new communication tools enabling distributed teams to work together across continents could mean that there will be n

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Leadership Gift #3 – Choose Possibility

Kevin Eikenberry

On Monday, I offered a shopping list of gifts leaders could give this Christmas season. In that post, I promised to detail each of these gifts as a part of a 12 Days of Christmas series. For Day 3, the shopping list suggests you see the world through the lens of possibilities. Specifically, the Day 2 […]. The post Leadership Gift #3 – Choose Possibility appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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