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How To Grow Your Company Into Unicorn Status

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Why do some young companies become unicorns ( a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion) , while others don’t? May and Pablo Dominguez provide readers with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.

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How To Write Your Company's Mission Statement

Eric Jacobsen Blog

A lot of companies struggle when creating their mission statement. Author Peter F.

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Seven Steps For Creating A People-First Culture For Your Company

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Although the book is authored by an award-winning financial advisor and primarily written for professionals in the financial services industry, this book is a must read for any leader who wants to create a nurturing heart culture that hinges on the human-centric values the next generation of employees hold in high regard. Encouragement.

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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? It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company. Purpose-Driven Companies Integrate Purpose into Business Strategy.

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How To Be Heart-Led Company

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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Blackbaud Announces Reauthorized $500M Stock Repurchase Program

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Blackbaud's board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million of the company's common stock.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” The authors use Cirque du Soleil to illustrate this idea.

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