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When to Guard an Idea: 6 Lessons from Naming My Baby

Whole Whale

In June 2024, my family welcomed our third child, and the process of naming him was a delightful yet challenging journey. This experience of choosing and then protecting a name made me reflect on why parents often keep baby names secret until birth, and how this approach can also apply to launching startups, nonprofits, and new ideas.

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When to Guard an Idea: 6 Lessons from Naming My Baby

Whole Whale

In June 2024, my family welcomed our third child, and the process of naming him was a delightful yet challenging journey. This experience of choosing and then protecting a name made me reflect on why parents often keep baby names secret until birth, and how this approach can also apply to launching startups, nonprofits, and new ideas.

Lesson 52
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How To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

.orgSource

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Create space for conversation. Make time for reflection. Begin with yourself. Be the change. Walk the talk—right? It sounds simple. Observe behavior.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

sgEngage

The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way. Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Take it out.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

.orgSource

Their experiences involved unprecedented social and industry challenges that nothing could have prepared them to meet. Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. The abrupt switch to remote work was a global challenge.

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How To Build A World-Class Workplace Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Those characteristics include: A strong commitment to excellence.

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