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Navigating the Unknown: Leadership in an Era of Uncertainty

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 Leading through the mists of uncertainty can feel formidable; yet, it unveils a chance to display resilience, adaptability, and visionary leadership. Here are a tapestry of strategies to amplify your prowess in traversing unpredictable realms: Embrace Flexibility and Adaptability Stay Agile: Nurture a malleable work atmosphere that empowers teams to swiftly shift and respond to emerging insights and changing tides. Iterative Planning: Break down long-term visions into smaller, manageable milestones that can be recalibrated as needed, allowing for continual reassessment and evolution. Communicate Transparently Honest Updates: Keep your team apprised of the current landscape, even when the news is less than favorable. Transparency begets trust and ensures collective alignment. Open Dialogue: Foster a space where team members feel emboldened to express their concerns and ideas, enriching insights and uplifting morale. Focus on What You Can Control Identify Priorities: Direct your ene...
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Forget Your Degree. Start a Business.

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The History of Domesticated Animals   was a course my really good friend took while attending Columbia University. Her tuition was $40,000 per year. She’s been out of college for almost 10 years, and still paying off the debt. She works at an accounting firm. Needless to say, that aforementioned course surprisingly hasn’t added any value to her current position, or any position she’s ever had in her professional career. Our education system is broken. There are countless entrepreneurs attempting to refine, disrupt and improve the broken model with online education, skill-based bootcamps and skill-based courses (including one of my projects,  Intangibly ). I recently spoke to two very impressive young entrepreneurs who are in my  Facebook group . Mind you, they’re also brother and sister, and on their second business. Brendan and Ashley Eapen are the founders of  In/Spree . After speaking to them, I told them that I was writing this column, and ...
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Youngsters Come up With Innovating Startup Ideas in Progressive Punjab Summit

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MOHALI: The concluding day of Progressive Punjab Summit-2015 witnessed a session wherein young innovators presented their ideas from home kits for cervical cancer detection to managing the kitchen waste. As many as 17 such innovative ideas incubated during 3-day long startup accelerator held at IT park Chandigarh, said an official release here. Yatin Thakur from Startup Weekend US said that the session Startups today was culmination of the Startup Weekend  programme organised on Oct 23 and Oct 24 startup activities and booster camps that were held across the Punjab in varied universities' campuses held in collaboration with the Startups Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC) The ideas were churned out by the energetic youngsters who showcased their talent, which when implemented has the potential to change the way we think today, it said. The contest was won by Shwetika Kumar, who is trying to create self testing non intrusive cervical testing kits at a cost of USD 5, a...
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