A first in an exciting series, here are 5 curated articles/insights to power through the rest of the week. Keep in touch with current trends and findings while staying motivated.
1. Women in Business:
Companies founded by women are actually twice as likely to produce a higher return on an investment as male-founded startups — an average of 78 cents on the dollar, compared with just 31 cents. Here’s some tips in landing investors:
How Women Entrepreneurs Can Pitch Their Ideas With Great Success
Pitching an idea for a new venture can be daunting at the best of times, but it’s much more challenging if you’re a woman. Whether it’s due to unconscious bias, generations of structural inequality, or good old fashioned social conditioning, the fact is that in 2017, women-led companies were on the receiving end of just 2.2% of venture capital in the US.
2. Corporate Responsibility
In his New York Times opinion piece last month, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, argued that C.E.Os are qualified to make profits, not lead society, and that we should not expect the latter of them. Here’s why his arguments were flawed:
CEOs Have A Responsibility To Help Lead Society
The soul has been ripped out of business over the past 50 years as we’ve come to view every decision through the myopic lens of short-term earnings. We’re starting to find our way back to a more balanced view and we need CEO’s leadership in the process.
3. Plenty of Fish
The scarcity mindset has never been a good model for businesses or opportunities. As it now turns out, it’s even worse for intelligence. Here’s some sound research in why you should abandon this old world thinking.
One Study Showed Having an Abundance Mindset Raises Your IQ by 13 Points. Here’s How to Get One
Lead Back when there were approximately 57 people running to be the Democratic nominee for president, entrepreneur turned candidate Andrew Yang distinguished himself from the crowded field by pushing the idea of universal basic income. Free money from the government has obvious political upsides, but as Yang explained in a Big Think video back then, UBI has another huge upside: it makes people smarter.
4. Come One, Come All
Old or new, a CEO can never know enough. Learn and re-learn how to navigate the daily hustle that comes with the job:
Seven Surprises for New CEOs
The Idea in Brief You’re the new CEO-and you’ve come face-to-face with these paradoxes: The more power you have, the harder it is to wield without demoralizing other managers. You bear full responsibility for your company’s fate, but you don’t control most of what determines it. So how will you succeed?
5. On the Shoulders of Giants
Elon Musk is not a name likely to fade off in the coming years. A tale of unconventional courage, insight and risk-taking. Here’s what he did and what you can learn from it.
How billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and provocative men in tech (TSLA)
It seems like there’s nothing Elon Musk can’t do. As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once, pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies. He’s said he won’t be happy until we’ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars .
