A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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In 2014, under the name Bootstrap Heros, Oisin O’Connor and his two roommates were determined to solve one of the biggest problems facing Shopify merchants: recurring payments. In October, after many months of takeout and trial and error, ReCharge Payments was launched. By 2015, O’Connor’s team became the preferred partner of Shopify Plus, so they upgraded from their whiteboard-lined apartment to an office in Santa Monica, CA.
Today, the company has grown from a handful of employees to 250+ fully remote team members. Working ...
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Last month, I called my go-to window washer to schedule a much-needed cleaning. I usually have this done twice every year, but…well, you know. He was booked solid for the next two weeks, but we managed to get the job scheduled. When he came to my house, I asked if he’d been extra busy with customers like me scheduling make-up window cleaning. “Yes,” he said, “I’ve had more back-to-back jobs in the last two months than I had all of last year.” I had similar conversations with a landscaping crew, the dental hygienist, and the manager at ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I’m a senior manager at a great company. I was recently approached by another company that I’ve admired for a long time that wants to offer me an opportunity to join their senior team. What advice do you have for weighing whether to stay or go?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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When seasoned tech investor Jeff Kearl met with John Wilson for a pitch meeting over breakfast in 2009, Kearl thought Wilson would be talking up a new product in the consumer electronics space. After all, Wilson had previously been an executive of Oakley and was working at Skullcandy on the morning that they sat down. Instead of pitching a cool new consumer device, however, Wilson threw out one of the lowest tech products imaginable – socks.
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Welcome to the seventy-third issue of CEE News!
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I recently completed a leadership course taught by Dr. Ronald Heifetz, Founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. I took the Harvardx course to audit it for a client who wants to develop their high-potential employees. Not only did the course offer ways to mobilize people to tackle tough problems, but it also helped participants build the capacity to thrive through the complexities of change.
In his closing lecture, Dr. Heifetz told this personal story on the myth of measurement.
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Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I started a new job with a marketing agency three months ago. The work is exciting and I’m learning a lot. My only worry is that my manager has stopped showing up for our weekly Zoom meetings. I’m concerned that if this keeps happening, he won’t know what I’m working on and may think that I’m not being productive since I work from home. How can I keep my manager updated on my work if he keeps cancelling our meetings?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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Alina Vandenberghe traces her entrepreneurship roots to communist and post communist Romania. Both of Alina’s parents were factory workers with limited income. So, instead of relying on them to pay for her textbooks and other school expenses, Alina started a series of ventures at the tender age of nine.
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Welcome to the seventy-second issue of CEE News!
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What role should female leaders play in helping their C-suite navigate the issue of state efforts to restrict reproductive rights in America?
What are some workplace policies or practices that companies should enact to support women and accelerate progress in closing the gender gap in the workforce?
These are just two of the questions tackled by participants in our recent panel discussion, HERstory: A Conversation With Executive Women About Gender Equality. As I listened to the responses from the panelists, I was struck how women ...