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7 Metaphors That Every Aspiring Leader Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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7 Common Themes That Indicate An Extraordinary Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Don’t Be A Product Leader Still Failing In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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7 Leadership Metaphors To Motivate Business Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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How To Become an Extraordinary Entrepreneur Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Let them guide you. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app? Just jump into the demo after intros.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

The goal is to create an open platform that deliberates in public, includes views from a broad range of stakeholders, supports unbiased research, and develops a set of best practices for developing and implementing AI technologies. He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though.