Enabling your employees to take ownership of important decision is one of the most powerful parts of leadership decision making.
Just because you’re the one sitting in the corner office doesn’t mean you should be the one with final say on each and every decision.
You won’t accomplish much on your marketing agenda without the support of these executive business partnerships.
As a marketer you’ve got to juggle a lot of different aspects of your business. While adding more and more balls to the mix might delight the crowd at the circus, you’ll never accomplish your business goals without some assistance. But who should you be turning to for help? In a post at Forbes, Lisa Arthur breaks down the three business executive partnerships marketers need to focus on.
As companies grow from the startup to the expansion stage, founding CEOs are faced with three potential developmental paths.
The roles of startup CEOs and expansion-stage CEOs differ greatly. They require completely different skill sets, and the majority of founders end up recruiting replacements to take over the companies they created.
Gilt co-founder Alexis Maybank explains why having a strong founding team is paramount to predicting start up success.
Gilt has become one of the most successful, innovative retailers on the Web, but co-founder Alexis Maybank had to learn some hard lessons about partnerships and the impact they have on success before Gilt was even a glimmer in her eye.
This week’s Labcast features Part II of the discussion between OpenView Venture Partner, Firas Raouf, and Pascal Levensohn, Managing Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners, on the keys to building and managing effective boards of directors.
According to a recent OpenView survey of expansion-stage CEOs and board members, the ability to run effective board meetings is among the greatest factors that will determine the success or failure of a board of directors.
In this week’s Labcast, OpenView Venture Partner, Firas Raouf, discusses the keys to building effective boards of directors with Pascal Levensohn, Managing Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners.
Great boards of directors are high-performance teams capable of helping companies by bringing critical corporate guidance, industry knowledge, access to important networks, and much-needed executive experience.
Leading CEO coach Mike Myatt explains why leaders can benefit from being more results driven — focusing less on processes and more on outcomes.
Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient — it’s a waste of time.
Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are.
Learn what makes up a company’s leadership value proposition and why it can be so vital to building something that lasts.
S. Anthony Iannarino of The Sales Blog suggests examining your leadership value proposition and what it means for your company and for the people who work for you.
Consider the founder advice of Kevin Rose, who helped create Digg and is now a partner at Google Ventures.
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose discusses overcoming the fear of failure and the importance of trusting your instincts in an article on founder advice posted at Inc.
Learn the three stages of founder growth and how to navigate each.
Alan Ying, venture partner at Chrysalis Ventures, discusses the three stages of founder growth and how to transition from one startup stage to the next.