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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

socalTECH

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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10 Principles Define You As A Design Thinking Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills. Coach others, rather than competing with others. This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. Increasingly I find myself engaging executive coaches at companies an trying to help executive teams get 360 degree feedback.

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5 Key Attributes Of A High-Performing Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

I was impressed by a recent book, “ The Leadership Star ,” by Brian Hartzer, an experienced business executive, offering a concise leadership framework that I believe embodies the key attributes that I recommend. Thus, ever after years as an executive in IBM and other companies, I’m still looking for the magic.

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10 Key Strategies For Innovation Leadership By Design

Startup Professionals Musings

Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills. Coach others, rather than competing with others. This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent.

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10 Top Attributes Elevate Design Thinking Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills. Coach others, rather than competing with others. This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent.

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8 Ways to Unleash A Team’s Maximum Productive Power

Startup Professionals Musings

Every organization needs a talent pipeline that holds leaders at all levels accountable for identifying and developing internal difference makers, and nurturing networks of external talent. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent.

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