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The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership

N2Growth Blog

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in a complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Surrender allows leadership to scale and a culture of leadership to be established.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

TechCrunch

Despite a culture that pushes founders to the edge of their physical, mental and personal limits as they build their company, we insist that they fly solo. They’re led to believe that reaching out for support is a sign of weakness. How do I lead a team of 50 for the first time? That stigma is a huge part of the problem.

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Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with rapid reforesting

TechCrunch

“ So it’ll be used both for supporting forestry projects directly, as well as for the development and deployment of forestry acceleration products and technology.” It goes without saying that planted trees which fail because of poor processes won’t help cut carbon emissions. That night, a forest flew.

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

TechCrunch

The Folklore highlights the best design talent across [Africa], and demand for these products that reflect the culture is exploding,” says Folklore’s CEO of its $1.7 million fundraise and its launch of a B2B fashion e-commerce platform. Dyte raised $11 million to make a drop-in software development kit (SDK) to help you with that.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO

Digital transformation defined Digital transformation has become a catchall term for describing the implementation of digital technologies to re-engineer existing processes or develop new services that better engage customers, support employees, improve business operations, and drive business value to the organization’s bottom line.