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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Leaders at companies, global brands, nonprofits, and everyone in between are asking that important question: what is a purpose-driven company? What is a purpose-driven business? It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company.

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A New Way To Think For Business Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Martin , he urges business leaders to toss out the old ways of thinking, and instead try new models in every domain of management – from competition and customers to strategy, data, culture, talent, mergers and acquisitions, and everything in-between. But very few people question the efficacy of the models, even though they don’t work.

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Business And Life Lessons From Entrepreneur Miguel Leal

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What I like most about Miguel Leal ’s memoir, aside from its overall compelling and inspiring information, are the business and life lessons he shares. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. market and grew his company to a multimillion-dollar success story that defined an industry.

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Disruption Sunny Side Up 

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It happens when smart people with guts and irrepressible creative energy are left to their own devices. His take on leadership, business, associations, and the future is always fascinating. They are irreverent and have a vision of where the company and the industry needs to go that is hard for other people to hear.

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A Playbook For How Women Advance Within Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Describing the new book, In Her Own Voice , by Jennifer McCollum , Anne Chow (former CEO of AT&T Business) says that “for women, the book does a beautiful job of explaining not just what to do to advance in your career, but also what to expect. Businesses need talented women, now more than ever.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. With a growing business, things change, but they don’t get easier. Joey Knecht, CEO and Managing Director at Proteus.co, recommends that leaders turn away from politics and toward business.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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This type of industry cross-pollination is going to make defining the future workforce very different.” I interviewed Hugh for, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” a book I wrote with my business partner Kevin Ordonez. Enthusiasm dies when people are not able to get the right buy-in.