How to Build A Startup, From an Early Lyft, Twitch Investor

Even though there’s a .00006% chance that a startup will reach a $1 billion valuation, Silicon Valley investor Mike Maples Jr. has placed early bets on more than one startup that beat the odds. Across his nearly two-decade investing career, Maples found that startups he invested in early that are now worth over a billion […]
How to Set Realistic Goals And Expectations

How to set realistic goals and expectations Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash A major pitfall on the path to leading and living with more purpose is doing what we think we “should” do. This “shoulding” may be based on what our colleagues, neighbors, or family members do or on what they told us, directly or […]
Michael Timms: How to claim your leadership power

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How To Talk About DEI At Work In A Polarizing Political Climate

Culture war and cultural wars concept or USA heritage and divided American politics as different … [+] philosophy as cultures fighting in conflict in the United States in a 3D illustration style. getty Following the events of the summer of 2020, many companies made bold statements proclaiming their support of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) […]
Beyond Buzzwords: How to Actually 'Think Strategically' – Forbes

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How To Find Your Place Of Most Potential For Career Sucess

A successful businesswoman in her Place of Most Potential For Career Success getty You have probably heard the analogy about a bottle of water priced differently in various settings. At a vending machine, a bottle of water is $1; at a nice restaurant, it is $4; and if you go to a professional sporting event, […]
How To Not Get Canceled When You Make An Allyship Mistake

Wooden blocks with “CANCEL” text of concept. getty Most people are well-intentioned and want to be better allies, yet they are also humans who make mistakes. Hopeful allies will most certainly make mistakes along the journey to becoming an ally. By definition, allyship requires taking risks on someone else’s behalf. These risks can result in […]
How to get ahead of people’s most common regret

People on their deathbed share a single most-common regret: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” That’s according to Bronnie Ware, author of the 2011 book “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.” The native Australian spent eight years as a hospice […]
Mentoring is essential to leading in change. Here’s how to get it.

Mentoring is essential to leading in complexity. getty Disruption a constant in most industries today. It also creates enormous opportunities to rise in organizations if we are able to grow our capacity to lead in complexity and ambiguity. A significant part of being able to lead in disruption is having the capacity to see around […]
How To Grow From A Founder To A CEO

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Getty Images In 2010, perhaps no company in the world was making a bigger splash than Groupon. In less than two years since its founding, the startup reached a $1.35 billion valuation and went from 37 employees to over 10,000, a whiplash-inducing rise that led Forbes to dub it “fastest […]