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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. Transforming a company into a superorganism that beats the competition. He subsequently created five publicly traded companies—United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO, and XPO’s two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO.

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How to Leverage Email as a Recruitment Tool: 4 Strategies

Nonprofits Source

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Reflect your nonprofit’s company culture and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in your email content. Use automated personalization tools.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace.

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“Survey Says” VS. Research

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Quantitative methods will likely use a survey as the data collection instrument, whereas qualitative methods might necessitate in-depth interviewing. Then, you should ask potential research companies three questions. In what methodology does the research company specialize? Others yet are capable of either or both techniques.

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The Perils of Fake News, Coordinated Misinformation, and Social Media Addiction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They also interviewed a former Google product manager turned interface design ethicist, Tristan Harris , about how tech companies are intentionally creating a large scale epidemic of people getting hooked to their smartphones. (It He provides techniques to help you answer a simple question, “Does this deserve my attention?”

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

Have Fun - Do Good

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Announcing My Next Book: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In case you don’t already know Aliza, she is an award-winning Internet business and nonprofit marketing consultant with over 25 years experience starting and running Internet companies. In 1995, she founded the first full-service Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc., Stress reduction techniques. Mindful Leadership.

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