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Ditch the Fear, Embrace The Magic: Leadership Lessons From A 4- And 5-Year-Old

Bloomerang

Leadership lessons are everywheresometimes even in a crowded YMCA pool. Recently, I started teaching my grandnieces, Vaitea (5) and Hoolai (4), how to swim. Heres what my 4- and 5-year-old nieces reminded me about leadership: when someone isnt afraid, trusts the person guiding them, and is eager to learn, magic happens.

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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

The post What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022 appeared first on The MatriX Files. I hope you find comfort and strength in The Stockdale Paradox. We are living in a Stockdale moment and we all need to become Admiral Stockdale.

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Teach them to fish: 5 leadership lessons for mentoring employees

The Next Web

David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. To succeed as an entrepreneur you must constantly overcome countless factors that are beyond your control; market changes, employee attrition and tech/product issues. You have to keep moving quickly towards execution or competitors will swallow you whole.

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What could equitable investment in Black nonprofit leaders look like? 

Candid

In September 2024, Candid and ABFE published two fact sheets about Black nonprofit leadership : Key Facts about Nonprofits with Majority Black Leadership and Key Facts about Nonprofits with Black CEOs. Invest in early to mid-career staff: Create leadership development programs for staff other than the executive staff.

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Teaching The CEO To Fundraise And Even Like It

The NonProfit Times

CEOs, like other members of the leadership team, use data to make daily decisions. The above data points are numbers that a CEO, and executive leadership, can understand. ** Randall Hallett is founder of Hallett Philanthropy in Omaha, Nebraska. Share the correct data. The same is true with philanthropy data.

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African Leadership Group acquires coding school Holberton

TechCrunch

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). ALG founder and CEO Fred Swaniker started the organization as a leadership academy (now the African Leadership Academy ) for small cohorts of students. Image Credits: African Leadership Group.

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Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Cloud 4 Good

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. The post Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud appeared first on Cloud for Good.

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