THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

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15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing 10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper controls the flow of information in an attempt to narrow focus and avoid surprises. I often hear new managers who adopt this role describe themselves as a “shit shield.”. A gatekeeper might: handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing 10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper controls the flow of information in an attempt to narrow focus and avoid surprises. I often hear new managers who adopt this role describe themselves as a “shit shield.”. A gatekeeper might: handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work.

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14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT MY WORK, BUT WHAT SHOULD I WRITE Indicator #2: You recently finished a high-impact project. Finishing a project is a great time to stop, reflect, and write about your work. There’s a good possibility you learned something during this process that other people would be interested in learning from. Some questions

to ask yourself:

10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. 15 INSPIRING QUOTES THAT WILL MOTIVATE ALL YOUNG Here are some super smart tips from 15 of the young entrepreneurs who made this year’s Inc 30 Under 30 list. 1. Carve Your Own Path. Don’t let someone else’s vision of success force you to stray from the path you worked to be on. Carve your own path and you’ll always be heading in the right direction. — Michelle Phan, co-founder of

Ipsy.

HOW TO BE GOOD AT MARKETING. “YEA, BUT HE DOESN’T REALLY Pieces of the Marketing Pie. They know their piece of the pie does X. And they do that. To know marketing is to understand that marketing works as a system. The system has two sides that work together. Side One: What you tell people about your organization. Side Two: What people’s subjective experience is with your organization. 11 FASCINATING BOOKS ON HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL’S REQUIRED Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on HubSpot’s Marketing Blog.. There’s no better time to revamp your reading list than summer. The question is what should you read? With so many business books out there to choose from, sifting through all those online descriptions and reviews could take up an entire summer in and

of itself.

14 BLACK LEADERS TO WATCH IN TECH Kimberly Bryant. For the past six years, Kimberly Bryant has been building BlackGirlsCode, a non-profit teaching girls ages 6–17 from underrepresented communities skills in computer programming and technology.Kimberly is partnering with some of the biggest names in tech on this initiative — Google, Oracle, Salesforce, and Adobe to

name a few.

LEADING WITH THE POWER OF INFLUENCE VS. POSITIONAL POWER 1. Crowdsourcing the challenge. Because the team already had mixed opinions about the project direction from the get-go, I decided to crowdsource and ask Citi employees what they thought we should explore. The company is huge and sometimes, different teams feel THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

WHY SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AREN’T THAT “SMART Grit is less about cognitive ability and more about cognitive control; i.e. your ability to delay gratification in pursuit of your goals, control your impulses, effectively manage upsetting emotions, hold focus, and possess a readiness to learn, according to Psychologist Daniel Goleman. What’s more, a 30-year study of more than 1,000

children

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

WHY SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AREN’T THAT “SMART Grit is less about cognitive ability and more about cognitive control; i.e. your ability to delay gratification in pursuit of your goals, control your impulses, effectively manage upsetting emotions, hold focus, and possess a readiness to learn, according to Psychologist Daniel Goleman. What’s more, a 30-year study of more than 1,000

children

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. 15 INSPIRING QUOTES THAT WILL MOTIVATE ALL YOUNG Here are some super smart tips from 15 of the young entrepreneurs who made this year’s Inc 30 Under 30 list. 1. Carve Your Own Path. Don’t let someone else’s vision of success force you to stray from the path you worked to be on. Carve your own path and you’ll always be heading in the right direction. — Michelle Phan, co-founder of

Ipsy.

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. THE NO EXCUSES CULTURE. GETTING READY FOR OUR NEXT The No Excuses Culture. Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raining.” (The posters go inside the building.) “We still have time.” (We had agreed they were to go up a week ago HOW TO BE GOOD AT MARKETING. “YEA, BUT HE DOESN’T REALLY Pieces of the Marketing Pie. They know their piece of the pie does X. And they do that. To know marketing is to understand that marketing works as a system. The system has two sides that work together. Side One: What you tell people about your organization. Side Two: What people’s subjective experience is with your organization. 15 UNCOMFORTABLE THINGS THAT WILL MAKE YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL Nearly 2,000 Medium readers have recommended the first version of this article.So I’m bringing it back, this time with a few new uncomfortable things worth trying. In a truly beautiful letter to his daughter Yolande, Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois extolled the virtues of being uncomfortable. 14 BLACK LEADERS TO WATCH IN TECH John Thompson. John Thompson’s resume includes some of the biggest names in tech: IBM, Symantec, and Microsoft. During Thompson’s senior year at Florida A&M University, he joined IBM as a sales representative. He ended up staying for 28 years, and eventually rose to become general manager of IBM Americas. WHY VENTURE CAPITALISTS DON’T DO MARKETING LIKE THE REST The history of VC marketing. Early 2000's. History never gives us a neat line marking the beginning or end of a thing, but if you had to choose, if you had to identify the line of demarcation between “before VC firms did marketing” and “after VC firms did marketing” you would place it in 2001, the year that Mary Meeker published her first Internet Trends report. THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing 10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or 10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. WHY CULTURE DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN. PETER DRUCKER FAMOUSLY Measure It. Think about the things you measure in a business: customers, users, profits, revenue, retention, adoption, etc. They are often the focus of regular meetings and discussion and the top priorities in any executive leadership meeting, board discussion, or strategy brainstorm. 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing 10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or 10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. WHY CULTURE DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN. PETER DRUCKER FAMOUSLY Measure It. Think about the things you measure in a business: customers, users, profits, revenue, retention, adoption, etc. They are often the focus of regular meetings and discussion and the top priorities in any executive leadership meeting, board discussion, or strategy brainstorm. 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to

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14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

HOW TO TEST YOUR IDEA. START WITH THE MOST CRITICAL In the world of Lean Startup, the Build, Measure, Learn cycle is a means to an end to test the attractiveness of business ideas. Unfortunately, some innovators and entrepreneurs take the “Build” step too literally and immediately start building prototypes. THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT MY WORK, BUT WHAT SHOULD I WRITE Indicator #2: You recently finished a high-impact project. Finishing a project is a great time to stop, reflect, and write about your work. There’s a good possibility you learned something during this process that other people would be interested in learning from. Some questions

to ask yourself:

15 INSPIRING QUOTES THAT WILL MOTIVATE ALL YOUNG Here are some super smart tips from 15 of the young entrepreneurs who made this year’s Inc 30 Under 30 list. 1. Carve Your Own Path. Don’t let someone else’s vision of success force you to stray from the path you worked to be on. Carve your own path and you’ll always be heading in the right direction. — Michelle Phan, co-founder of

Ipsy.

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. WHY NOT KNOWING YOURSELF MAKES YOU A BETTER LEADER True self-awareness means holding both clarity about the known self and a mindfulness regarding the potential of the self yet becoming. This frontier territory is the threshold between Being and Becoming, a space for untying and unhinging the self we know into something else, something more. When we allow ourselves to forget our known AND THEN ADVERTISING GOT WEIRD: WHAT IS ODDVERTISING? Most were startups and brands trying to grab attention with unconventional work like firing gerbils into the company logo, or sock puppets. What emerged was something even more unusual in tone, later dubbed Oddvertising. Eager to reach younger audiences with discretionary income, the ads became more risky and offbeat. THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. THE STARTUP FOUNDER’S GUIDE TO ANALYTICS You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.Analytics powers every decision, from the strategic to the tactical, from the board room to WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. HOW IMPATIENCE MAKES YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

14 TIPS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE You are looking forward to a quiet weekend, but your colleague requests that you help him meet a deadline by working over the weekend. All you can think of HOW TO TALK TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE ABOUT PRETTY MUCH E dith Wharton once said, “Ah, good conversation — there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Ms. Wharton had a way with words (written and otherwise), but she would likely be horrified to know that most of our daily conversations nowadays start with shorthand texts or three-line

emails.

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. THE STARTUP FOUNDER’S GUIDE TO ANALYTICS You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.Analytics powers every decision, from the strategic to the tactical, from the board room to WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. HOW IMPATIENCE MAKES YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

14 TIPS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE You are looking forward to a quiet weekend, but your colleague requests that you help him meet a deadline by working over the weekend. All you can think of HOW TO TALK TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE ABOUT PRETTY MUCH E dith Wharton once said, “Ah, good conversation — there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Ms. Wharton had a way with words (written and otherwise), but she would likely be horrified to know that most of our daily conversations nowadays start with shorthand texts or three-line

emails.

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU So here it is, the 10 hard truths about management that no one tells you. 1. Management can be lonely. When you’re an individual contributor on a team, you have a built-in support system. You’re naturally grouped with people who do the same thing you do, or DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? A gatekeeper might: review all of their team’s work to ensure quality and consistency. handle all the task management, prioritization, and design so the team can focus on their day-to-day work. have conversations on behalf of their team. get in front of every decision to help ensure that their team doesn’t make mistakes. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE A decade before Kotler coined the term atmospherics, researchers had already begun exploring the potential of using in-store music as a sales tool. One of the earliest studies — Cain-Smith & Curnow (1966) — looked at the effect that music volume had on supermarket shoppers. Not surprisingly, researchers found that when the music was

loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. THE STARTUP FOUNDER’S GUIDE TO ANALYTICS You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.Analytics powers every decision, from the strategic to the tactical, from the board room to WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. HOW IMPATIENCE MAKES YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

14 TIPS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE You are looking forward to a quiet weekend, but your colleague requests that you help him meet a deadline by working over the weekend. All you can think of HOW TO TALK TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE ABOUT PRETTY MUCH E dith Wharton once said, “Ah, good conversation — there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Ms. Wharton had a way with words (written and otherwise), but she would likely be horrified to know that most of our daily conversations nowadays start with shorthand texts or three-line

emails.

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

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loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About. Many people have read the story of how George Washington Carver invented over 300 products made from peanuts: flour, paste, insulation. Pamela Rosario Pérez. Feb 26, 2017. The iPhone X is the Beginning of the End for

Phones.

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it

10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT Being on Time — You can be as good at arriving on time as Richard Branson. This is a character trait that is so easy to accomplish and promotes respect for all parties involved. Chronic lateness does exactly the opposite. Work Ethic — You can have the same work ethic

as Marc Cuban.

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loud

SCALE-UP LEADERSHIP LESSONS I’VE LEARNED OVER 9 YEARS AS No Uninspired Compromises. One thing that can kill a scale-up is the “uninspired compromise.” The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend. But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract value. This is a great skill to teach people, because you want them to 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE Acknowledge the setback and move on. Stay flexible; change is a part of life. 4. Manage your strong feelings and impulses. Non-resilient: I am going to take my anger out on someone. Resilient: I am angry but I need to move on and stay focused. Resilient people experience anger;

it

THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success. As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. THE STARTUP FOUNDER’S GUIDE TO ANALYTICS You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.Analytics powers every decision, from the strategic to the tactical, from the board room to WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Nevertheless, a few realities about being a first-time CEO struck me during my first 100 days in the role. Here are five of them. 1. Time becomes more precious than ever. Once my title changed on LinkedIn, and especially after the press release about my new role went out, people came out of the woodwork to talk to me. HOW IMPATIENCE MAKES YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP The financial statements template truly is an all-in-one resource to keep track of business transactions, profits, and losses. The “profit & loss” tab automatically summarizes revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and can display your growth rate percentage. This template also offers resources and guidance to make the process

easier

IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Lewis Latimer. Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander

Graham

14 TIPS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE You are looking forward to a quiet weekend, but your colleague requests that you help him meet a deadline by working over the weekend. All you can think of HOW TO TALK TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE ABOUT PRETTY MUCH E dith Wharton once said, “Ah, good conversation — there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Ms. Wharton had a way with words (written and otherwise), but she would likely be horrified to know that most of our daily conversations nowadays start with shorthand texts or three-line

emails.

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED ThinkGrowth.org is a HubSpot publication. We bring you stories, insights, and ideas to help you and your business grow. 15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT It’s common for new and established leaders to have moments of self-doubt and engage in social and professional comparisons. We live in a time when geniuses abound, but we have to remind ourselves that success often comes down to perseverance, not genius. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE It’s no secret that stores use sights, smells, sounds and other stimuli in combination to produce particular atmospheres. For example, according to researchers, in order to create an upscale atmosphere, “A manager might choose classical music, subdued colors, elegant perfumes, cool temperatures, sparsely displayed merchandise, and low

lighting.”

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Earlier this year, I made a one of those career moves that can make even the most polished professional slightly queasy. Fortunately, I

was no stranger

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU Being a manager means signing up to feel the feelings and do the hard things anyway. Which brings me to a somewhat related point 6. Management is emotional. DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? Balance is an integral part of every job. We have to balance our priorities at work and our lives outside of work. We need to balance the time we spend building with the time we spend maintaining. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend.But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract

value.

14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Dr. Shirley Jackson is an American physicist who received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at

MIT.

THINKGROWTH.ORGEDITOR'S FAVORITESWHY SOME STARTUPS WINLATEST STORIESMOST RECOMMENDED ThinkGrowth.org is a HubSpot publication. We bring you stories, insights, and ideas to help you and your business grow. 15 QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN EMPATHIC THINKING According to research published in the Lady Geek Global Empathy Index, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.. If you want to unlock revenue growth maybe your focus shouldn’t be on conversion rate optimization, pushing that next feature, or designing a better marketing THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria 10 LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT REQUIRE ZERO TALENT It’s common for new and established leaders to have moments of self-doubt and engage in social and professional comparisons. We live in a time when geniuses abound, but we have to remind ourselves that success often comes down to perseverance, not genius. STORES ARE USING MUSIC TO MAKE YOU SPEND MORE It’s no secret that stores use sights, smells, sounds and other stimuli in combination to produce particular atmospheres. For example, according to researchers, in order to create an upscale atmosphere, “A manager might choose classical music, subdued colors, elegant perfumes, cool temperatures, sparsely displayed merchandise, and low

lighting.”

WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Earlier this year, I made a one of those career moves that can make even the most polished professional slightly queasy. Fortunately, I

was no stranger

10 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT NO ONE TELLS YOU Being a manager means signing up to feel the feelings and do the hard things anyway. Which brings me to a somewhat related point 6. Management is emotional. DO YOU MANAGE LIKE A GATEKEEPER OR A GARDENER? Balance is an integral part of every job. We have to balance our priorities at work and our lives outside of work. We need to balance the time we spend building with the time we spend maintaining. STOP GOING TO MEETINGS THAT DON’T HAVE AGENDAS 4. People learn to opt out: Providing an agenda before the meeting makes people feel like there’s a good reason for them to attend.But giving people the agenda before the meeting also gives people the chance to opt out if they don’t feel they can provide or extract

value.

14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Dr. Shirley Jackson is an American physicist who received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at

MIT.

THE 8 BEHAVIORS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria HOW IMPATIENCE MAKES YOU MORE SUCCESSFUL This post was originally featured on Equilibrialeadership.com.. If you enjoyed this article, please click the heart! . Follow Nicole on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.. Sign up for my free newsletter here to receive insights about fueling leadership through neuroscience and psychology.. Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D., MBA is an organizational psychologist and the CEO of Equilibria THE SAAS FOUNDER’S PLAYBOOK FOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. WHAT I LEARNED IN MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS CEO Earlier this year, I made a one of those career moves that can make even the most polished professional slightly queasy. Fortunately, I

was no stranger

THE STARTUP FOUNDER’S GUIDE TO ANALYTICS You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.Analytics powers every decision, from the strategic to the tactical, from the board room to 10 GOOGLE SHEETS TEMPLATES TO HELP YOU RUN YOUR STARTUP Google Sheet Templates for Reporting and Analytics Website Traffic Dashboard. If your role requires you to analyze website traffic using Google Analytics, this template is a fantastic supplemental tool to pull that data into an organized report, saving you tons of time. IF WE ALL HATE ADS SO MUCH … WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST? Blocking Out the Ads. As early as the 1950s, critics of advertising’s potentially adverse effects on society began speaking out. One such critic, journalist Vance Packard, published the book The Hidden Persuaders in 1957, which stayed on the bestseller list for 18 weeks. In the book, Packard describes how advertisers employ “mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion,” and how 14 BLACK INVENTORS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Dr. Shirley Jackson is an American physicist who received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at

MIT.

14 TIPS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE You are looking forward to a quiet weekend, but your colleague requests that you help him meet a deadline by working over the weekend. All you can think of HOW TO TALK TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE ABOUT PRETTY MUCH E dith Wharton once said, “Ah, good conversation — there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Ms. Wharton had a way with words (written and otherwise), but she would likely be horrified to know that most of our daily conversations nowadays start with shorthand texts or three-line

emails.

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