Culture

Prepare students for entrepreneurial leadership by introducing them to real-world founders and problems, facilitating spirited debate, and encouraging principled decision-making.

Current students of entrepreneurship want to explore ethical perspectives and principled decision-making. Better training tools and stronger institutional support for values-based entrepreneurship education will help scale lasting change.

Organizational values are a constant. But that doesn't mean they can't adapt.

Motivate people, help them identify opportunities, and prepare them for challenges by shifting their attention to the future and the past.

Harness the power of diversity in your organization. When you start pursuing a new venture, consider how you network, hire, promote and even build an office.

Practice bringing unique perspectives to the table. A difference of opinion is often the key to successful teams.

Challenge your perspective. Reframe dead ends as data points.

To fight friction, add predictability even in times of uncertainty.

You can’t combat friction through structural solutions alone. Start dealing with your emotions and the emotions of those around you.

In fast-moving environments, look for ways to establish consistency and predictability.

To increase productivity, don’t increase working hours—give employees greater autonomy.

Put your values front and center. How you make something is as important as what you make.

Changing your culture starts with energizing your users. Customer buy-in motivates staff to take new risks.

Healthy paranoia can be a productive tool to ensure a project stays on schedule and on budget. Learn how to trust your gut.

To encourage innovation, measure and reward employees’ productive failures.

Add ethics to your design process by reframing engineering problems in terms of people and values.

Create an environment where people want to bring 100 percent of themselves to their work. Early-stage startups are positioned to make inclusion a core value.