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How To Create And Communicate Performance Standards In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When new employees are able to become productive team members, your company receives the best return on its investment in personnel. While managers and executives will need to have concrete standards and measures in mind for a particular job, the most effective performance standards should be developed alongside new employees.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

Mark has been at the forefront of providing job stability and funding for his own employees and the networks that support them during the pandemic. It's never selfish to try to do the right thing for your employees, your customers, and your stakeholders." Since then he's been starting and investing in companies in a number of arenas.

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Why You Should Run Your City Like A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Scott Fadness, Mayor of Fishers, Indiana. With such a high failure rate, why would I, the leader of a municipality thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, model my leadership style after that of an entrepreneur? As a leader, you can’t move quickly and easily if your employees depend on you for every decision that has to be made.

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Startup CEO, Second Edition

OnlyOnce

The second edition is more than a new cover and obvious updates on the number of employees or revenues. I added topics that reflect heightened responsibilities of CEOs around moral and ethical leadership in an increasingly transparent and socially conscious world. How do you navigate a politically charged and divisive society?

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global organization. Lopez holds a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Gender Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. I am really proud of our employee-led resource groups.

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Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment

crowdSPRING Blog

Driving to Bloomington a few weeks ago on my way to the older son’s graduation from IU, I was struck as I always am by the sight of a massive windfarm along I65 in central Indiana. Working from home can not only lead to productivity gains and improve employee retention rates , but it can also be a significant way to save energy.

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