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How to Lead: 6 Tips by Visionary Businesswomen

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder, Executive Chair, and CEO of Bumble.
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Key Takeaways

  • Great leaders intentionally design culture instead of inheriting it by default.
  • Building leverage and resilience matters more than chasing growth for its own sake.
  • Redefining success around sustainability creates healthier and stronger organizations.
  • Simplicity and clarity often scale better than complexity and feature overload.
  • Transformation and accountability are strategic advantages, not organizational costs.
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Stephen Reeder: Lessons in Leadership Reflected Through Scouting Values

Scouting

Key Takeaways

  • Scouting emphasizes character, service, and self-reliance – values that closely mirror effective leadership principles.
  • The founding story of the Boy Scouts of America highlights how small acts of integrity can have lasting societal impact.
  • Scouting programs build confidence and resilience by helping young people overcome social, emotional, and physical challenges.
  • Personal achievement in Scouting often comes through mentorship, teamwork, and disciplined effort.
  • The stories demonstrate how values learned early in life can shape ethical leadership in business and community roles.
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What Does a Great Leader need? Time to think!

As a leader, you’re paid (and praised!) for delivering results. It’s all about setting an ambitious plan and then executing it. This requires action. Modern business life is busy and there’s often a barrage of unexpected events you have to deal with. This involves more action. Do you ever have a moment to reflect, to ponder, to think? It’s all very well investing time in action, but if you’re neglecting thinking time, then you’re heading for a fall.

Thinking leader

1. Be more effective

The world is not static. The great plans you make at the beginning of the day, week, month or year will, inevitably, need to be amended over time.…

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