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Self-Awareness And Coachability: The Two Most Important Leadership Traits

YoungUpstarts

I’ve worked with hundreds of leaders — in hospitals, on baseball fields, in government offices, in hotels, stores, and restaurants — and have seen that organizations that focus on these two qualities tend to be strong, innovative, and profitable. He currently serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of West Florida.

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You’re Not The Boss Of Me: Millennials

YoungUpstarts

Professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Orange County, Florida has his first year economics students write an essay detailing the support they think should be provided to them by the government. They Want, They Want, They Want.

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Twelve Ways To Use Entrepreneurial Thinking To Help Our Schools

YoungUpstarts

Not only is the private sector suffering, but huge budget deficits mean the government sector is feeling the pain as well. Yes, budget battles in state and local governments have led to extreme, never-before-seen cuts in education budgets — thousands of teacher layoffs and the slashing of music, athletic, gifted, and other programs.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. They also formed a partnership with the City of LA that brought the first drive-through testing to the U.S., creating a model for how other cities can do it.

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

And, in 2002, when Richard Florida published “Rise of the Creative Class,” Austin was a city that outperformed similar sized cities in large part due to droves of creative professionals wanting to live here. and not the startup kind but the Facebook/Google/Apple/Big Tech Co kind?—?which

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30 Ways To Be A More Engaged Citizen

YoungUpstarts

For all of these reasons, research shows that private sector leadership is the key to sustainable success. Citizens are beginning to realize they must close the gap between government officials and the community. Know how your local government works and what you can do to effect change. Maybe we just felt we were too busy.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator.   Many of you did. .