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Monthly Archives: March 2020

3 Things Leaders Shouldn’t Do During the COVID-19 Crisis

30 March, 2020

Contributed by Amy Power, founder of the PR and social media firm The Power Group.

Reputations are won and lost during times of crisis. That’s good news if you are a brand that can step in to solve a piece of the pandemic problem by feeding first responders or creating a program to help hourly workers. But for other organizations, it may not be so obvious.

It is instinctive for most entrepreneurs to move quickly and rush to speak and act, but you can cause your brand serious harm if you don’t consider these tips.

DON’T ask the wrong question.

If you and your management team are asking yourself, “What should we say? What should we do?” then you are asking yourself the wrong question—which may lead to the wrong actions.

Categories: LEADERSHIP PEOPLE/STAFF PR/MARKETING

Tags: Amy power coronavirus COVID-19 eo dallas The Power Group

Mental Health Should Be Your Top Priority Right Now. Here’s Why

27 March, 2020

As COVID-19 devastates nations and businesses, there’s a potential casualty you may not have fullly realized: your mental health. Uncertainty around the health of your family, company and employees can be overwhelming. We asked Dandapani—a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and highly rated speaker for Entrepreneurs’ Organization—how to manage stress and the mental health of your staff during this difficult period. (Dandapani is pictured above, photo by Toby Burrows.)

What is your message to entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis?

Looking after your mental health during this crisis should be every business leader’s No. 1 priority.

Why is it so important? Because if you’re operating from a place of mental chaos, everything around you is going to be in chaos: your relationships, your family and your company.

Categories: HEALTH LEADERSHIP

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 Dandapani mental health

COVID-19 Coverage That Delivers Counsel and Comfort

24 March, 2020

With so much—not always accurate—information available online, we’re weighing in with 12 articles related to COVID-19 certain to inform and inspire.

1. COVID-19 Facts Versus Fiction

The World Health Organization (WHO) sets out to debunk some of the top myths surrounding the novel coronavirus—including whether or not the virus can affect young people.

Categories: HEALTH

Tags: #EOTogether coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic quarantine WHO

Stepping Up in Crisis: EO Members Respond to COVID-19

20 March, 2020

In times of crisis, entrepreneurs step up to take the lead on creating groundbreaking pathways toward renewal. We asked three EO members what strategies they are implementing at work and in their personal lives as COVID-19 continues to spread.

Evan Nierman is the founder and CEO of Red Banyan, an international crisis public relations firm. He is an EO South Florida member.

Red Banyan is approaching the present situation with calm and decisiveness, which is how we counsel our clients to operate in times of crisis. We are making our team members available to provide free, 15-minute same-day consultations so that we can educate businesses on how to draw upon proven best practices and put them to use.

Categories: BUSINESS GROWTH FINANCES INNOVATION LEADERSHIP OPERATIONS PR/MARKETING STRATEGY

Tags: Brera Serviced Apartments Bruce Stanger EO Connecticut EO Italy EO South Florida Evan Nierman Matteo Ghedini Red Banyan Stanger Stanfield Law

We’re Entering the Stay-Home Economy. Here are 10 Industries That Will Be Winners

18 March, 2020

The below article is part of Robert Glazer’s LinkedIn Newsletter series and originally appeared on Glazer’s LinkedIn page. He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, an affiliation marketing company.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, many countries—including the United States—are mandating extreme social distancing measures. People are being urged to work remotely, schools have been canceled for weeks at a time and public gatherings are being discouraged, if not prohibited. It is increasingly likely that people will be self-quarantining in their home for weeks at a time and limiting their socialization for much longer than that.

These behavioral shifts are creating rapid changes in our economy. There will be both short-term and long-term impact as consumers and businesses are forced to change their behavior radically for weeks or months.

We are entering a new reality: the stay-home economy.

Categories: BUSINESS GROWTH FINANCES INNOVATION PR/MARKETING

Tags: acceleration partners remote work robert glazer stay-at-home economy stay-home economy

EO CEO Carrie Santos: Lean on Experience Share During COVID-19 Crisis

17 March, 2020

We all are waking up to find ourselves in an altered world each morning. We can flip through the news on our phones about which countries imposed travel restrictions, and which offices and services in our communities are no longer functioning.

But each morning, I wake up to 20 new ideas in my inbox and 100 offers of hope and support on my social media feed. I have the privilege of serving as CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a membership association of 14,000 entrepreneurs in 65 countries around the world. Entrepreneurs do not catch up on news and wonder how they will face the COVID-19 crisis. Entrepreneurs jump in to offer solutions.

Categories: BUSINESS GROWTH INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

Tags: Carrie Santos coronavirus COVID-19

Where to Turn for Financial Support During a Crisis

16 March, 2020

Written by Ami Kassar, CEO and founder of MultiFunding.com and an EO Philadelphia member. As an expert on access to capital for entrepreneurs, he is committed to ensuring that business owners have the best possible access to the capital structures to help grow and manage their businesses. This article has been edited from a version that originally appeared on Inc.om.

Are you a business owner, entrepreneur or startup founder who is concerned about the impact of the coronavirus oncash flow and business continuity? You are not alone. And there are several financial options to consider to get through the challenges.

Categories: BUSINESS GROWTH FINANCES STARTUP

Tags: Ami Kassar coronavirus COVID-19 loans MultiFunding.com small business administration The Growth Dilimma

Innovation Stacks and Crazy Entrepreneurs

13 March, 2020

Submited by James McKelvey. McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist and artist. He is also the cofounder of Square, a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California.

In his book The Innovation Stack, he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. The irreverent first-person narrative is an insider’s view of the world of entrepreneurship and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves—one crazy idea at a time.

Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur.

Let’s begin with an obvious question: How does a glassblower become the founder of a major payments company?

When I lost a glass sale because I couldn’t take the customer’s credit card, I looked at the iPhone in my hand and wondered why I could take pictures and read the news but couldn’t take a credit-card payment. I love solving problems, so I called up my buddy Jack Dorsey and proposed solving this one together.

Categories: INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

Tags: book entrepreneur James McKelvey The Innovation Stack

3 Ways Leaders Can Support Balance in a Connected World

11 March, 2020

Contributed by Cory Treffiletti, global head of marketing at Cisco Webex

In decades past, it was common for a young athlete to look to the bleachers after an incredible play—only to find an empty space where a parent should have been.

Work was demanding, and it wasn’t exactly acceptable to dip out of work at 3:30 pm to catch your kid’s soccer game. Busy executives continued to grind away in their offices, children felt somewhat neglected and, maybe, therapists reaped the rewards years later.

Today, the impact of technology on work-life balance is such that people can be personally and professionally engaged at the same time. Companies trust their team members enough that they feel comfortable providing remote work options. Instead of sacrificing personal experiences in favor of professional endeavors, workers can weave work throughout their days.

Categories: LEADERSHIP WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION

Tags: Cisco Webex Cory Treffiletti remote work work life balance

How We Can Make Work Less Awful

9 March, 2020

Burnout, stress and dissatisfaction are increasingly becoming the norm for far too many workers. But it doesn’t have to be this way, says Bruce Daisley. Up until January 2020, Daisley was Twitter’s most senior employee outside of the US.

In his new book, Eat Sleep Work Repeat, Daisley provides 30 simple changes to make work more enjoyable, meaningful and rewarding for yourself and your team. These accessible changes fall into three buckets: recharge, sync and buzz.

Daisley recently shared with us insights on workplace culture—including his favorite research-backed tip for recharging yourself and making work “less awful.”

What inspired you to create a podcast and then write a book about how to make work better?

This might be an uncomfortable thing for me to say, but I suspect that in many ways, modern work is a lie. We’ve got this situation that we’ve all created: Half of all the people who work in offices report feeling burned out. It’s almost like someone has hacked work to make it terrible for us.

Categories: HEALTH LEADERSHIP PEOPLE/STAFF

Tags: Bruce Daisley Eat Sleep Work Repeat twitter workplace culture