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Leadership
Navigating the challenges of remote work: Employees benefit from a natural osmosis of information and social cues that create a cohesive organization in a traditional office setting. Remote work can leave employees feeling isolated and disconnected. But is it virtual work or a broader shift in work culture?
When leaders don’t coach their teams for self-leadership, the teams struggle to scale and adapt quickly. This is where listening comes in.
Four things every leader should reflect on after the recent board conflict at Open AI.
Entrepreneurs tend to have complex psychologies-being more likely than the general population to experience common psychological challenges like ADHD, depression, Bipolar and other symptoms. Each of these psychologies also comes with huge gifts including creativity, risk tolerance, empathy and reality checking. Use this tool to assess your super powers and super struggles to help support your struggles and nurture your super powers.
Leadership is found in our approach to the world -- to what's here, what we see is next, and what's in between. It’s a deceptively simple but profound way of viewing and understanding something humans have been trying to describe for centuries. We describe it as treating leadership as practice.
Your upbringing shapes your view of the world. It is your duty as a leader not to allow childhood struggles and traumas to overtake the working environment you are striving to build.
Your relationship with your co-founder could be the thing that makes or breaks your company (spoiler alert, co-founder conflict accounts for 65% of company failures). To avoid the pitfalls, you can use attachment theory to understand how your co-founder relationship is working and recognize when it’s time to get help!
Throughout the month of May, in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, you can also find a plethora of resources, graphics and images to help raise awareness of and reduce the stigma of mental health in entrepreneurship.