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Measuring business growth through a lens of customer empathy
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Planning your calendar as a leader
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Breaking into venture during a downturn
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How to manage your time like CEOs
What is the one thing that the best CEOs do? They manage themselves and their time, above all. It is easy to get distracted by the everyday buzz, people's requests, emergencies, and life in general. Homa Game’s Ioana Hreninciuc on how C-suite and Executives manage their time and life, to make sure they keep the focus on the few important things…Read more.
What good alignment looks like
As your team starts to scale, your collective impact will depend on your ability to keep your teams working in unison. True alignment across teams can supercharge you towards your goals, and misalignments can grate on a team to a point of burnout. Amanda Schwartz Ramirez of Garden Labs on what alignment does and doesn’t look like…Read more.
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