06.08.17

CEOs: 3 Deadly Distractions and 3 Leadership Opportunities

This is the introductory article in the series, How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees). At 20 – 100 employees, your company is likely bigger than you think it is. Your company is likely bigger than you think it is.  It has succeeded where few others have. If you have 20-100 employees, […]

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06.08.17

Success, Significance, & Legacy

A colleague of mine has in his office a placard that reads “Success, Significance & Legacy”. The placard serves as a reminder that there are three “big” stages you might go through during your career. While he is 80 years old, each day he intentionally thinks about how to build and extend his enduring legacy, […]

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05.31.17

What Cities Can Learn from the Rise of Innovation Districts

Entrepreneurship and innovation do not exist in a vacuum. In fact that’s why I find the work I do so fulfilling; it touches so many facets of the economy and impacts positively so many people’s potential and future. One trend that particularly fascinates me the rise of so-called Innovation Districts around the globe. Barcelona is […]

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05.26.17

Do You Have What It Takes To Be Mentored?

Mentors keep us honest and empower us to trek forward on our entrepreneurial journeys. That forward movement often means encountering challenges and working through them. A great deal of the struggles women experience in the business world doesn’t necessarily come from their external environments, but rather from within. Call it saboteurs—those voices in our heads […]

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05.24.17

Nonprofit Leaders as “Adaptive” Business Builders

Entrepreneurship isn’t just for start-up or growth-oriented for profit ventures. Business Builders (AKA entrepreneurs) – a more global and inclusive term coined by Gallup – can spawn from all walks of organizational life – associations, non-profit charities, educational institutions (think about how Purdue is disrupting education with the Kaplan acquisition), government agencies (hard to imagine!), […]

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