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Psychological safety leads to innovation and empowerment. Together with brilliant Magda Gawrońska, I had an opportunity to facilitate round the table discussion about embracing the failure at work. Well, the real title of the session was more explicit, but for the purpose of LinkedIn let’s keep my naming convention. 😉 The session took place as a part of a conference “Strategie HR”. We gathered around 30 participants, and we had very inspiring discussions about creating an organizational culture where failure is considered as a learning opportunity. Personally, I think that allowing people to explore ambiguous topics which inevitably connects to possibility of failure is key in todays world. We can’t be 100% compliant and only follow white books regarding all apsects of work. The speed, the cloud, AI, and modern ways of working requires us to explore unknown, experiment, and continuously learn. Thank you to all who joined us today and participated in the discussion! I appreciate a lot the great atmosphere and fruitful dialogue. 🙏

Our life is full of constant problems. But we can choose which problems we like to solve. I like to solve problems related to EdTech and people’s lives. Talking with many clients, I found three barriers/doubts that stop them (and me sometimes) from growth. 1/ Everything is always EXPENSIVE. Consider only cost and not cost/benefit/ROI. 2/ I'M NOT READY or it's not the BEST moment. I'm that person who can decide to postpone and wait. When something happens, then I will... It doesn't work. 3/ I DON'T UNDERSTAND/I DISAGREE. I sometimes don't understand the reasons for certain actions, for example, of my managers and mentors, and I disagree with them. It seems to me that I know more and better. But these people are where I want to be, and I'm not there yet. Maybe they do know something, and I need to listen to get there too, even if I disagree or don't know. There's a great word in English - open-minded. Thank you to everyone who came to the diagnostics last weekend, you inspired me to write this post and reminded me that we all have the same difficulties and fears. If you really want to join the August LinkedInPUMP group, which starts on August 7th, leave a comment under the post or write to me personally, and we will see with the team if we can expand the group.

🥳 I'm celebrating two things today! 1️⃣ My four LinkedIn for Learning courses on innovation have reached over 23,090+ learners from all around the 🌏! 😍 I *LOVE*: 📣 hearing about what's been most helpful for you. 👀 seeing this content reach more places around the world. 🧠 knowing this is impacting professionals in ALL walks of life. 2️⃣ Over 5,000 people following me on LinkedIn. 🙏🏼 I'm truly humbled by this. I'm no social media guru. I simply post about what I'm passionate and excited about. And that is: Empowering others to make meaningful impact in their life and work by unleashing their innovative potential. 🚀 🙏🏼 Thank YOU for taking my courses and choosing to spend time with me on LinkedIn. As we head into the holidays and into a new year, I'd love to know how I can serve YOU better. 🙌🏻 So, I want to hear from YOU! 📣 Here's some thought starters to consider: ➡️ What are your biggest questions when it comes to innovation and creativity? ➡️ What are your biggest challenges when it comes to innovation? ➡️ What would you like to learn more about? ➡️ Is there any specific type of content you'd like more of from me? ➡️ Anything else I should know? Comment and let me know. ✍🏻 Or DM me if you'd rather share it in private. Thanks for your participation!! 👊🏻

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Ever wondered how to find the perfect investor and what you should look out for? Entrepreneurship often feels like a tightrope act between belief and doubt, and partnering with the right investor can tip the scales in your favour. But with investors ranging from blindly loyal to relentlessly critical, how do you find your perfect match? Drawing from years of boardroom discussions and investor interactions, our Co-Founder Elliot Conway has identified eight investor types and unveiled "The C-Sweet Spot" for navigating this crucial decision.  #Entrepreneurship #Investment #BusinessGrowth

Holysh*t, we just hit an 80K month. Creative Circle Collective has reached an incredible milestone: $80,000 in monthly revenue! 🎉 This journey has been wild, and I want to share some key insights: 1. Consistency is Key: Even on days when I’m not feeling it, I have to get up and run the business. It doesn’t matter if I’m stressed, the kids are sick, or it’s just a tough day. 🛌 ➡️ 🏃🏽♀️ Consistency is what keeps the momentum going. 2. Marathon, Not a Sprint: Running a business is a long-term commitment. 🏃🏽♀️ It’s about planting seeds, nurturing them, and investing time and effort consistently. 🌱🌿 3. Leverage Your Network: The connections you make will absolutely support you. 💬 I’m grateful for the amazing people in my network who push business my way, listen to my venting sessions, and believe in me even during tough times. 🤗 4. Trust Your Team: Trust is essential. 🙌 I have to rely on my team to execute our vision and deliver on our promises to clients. Trusting my team ensures that everything we produce reflects our core values and standards. 🎨✨ 5. Embrace Every Opportunity: Every interaction is an opportunity to learn and grow. 🌟 Trust takes time, and mistakes will happen, but each experience helps build a stronger foundation. 💪 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. Here’s to many more milestones ahead! 🥂🎉

After going through another move across the country, I've been reflecting on the early stages of starting a company. It's been an intense learning curve during these past four months, and I thought I'd share in case you're thinking about starting a company. TL;DR: DO IT A few lessons I've learned: 1️⃣ Vigilance is key. Many will offer assistance, but not all intentions align with your company's success. It's your company, and the success/failure is on you, and you alone in the early stages. (Always keep this in mind) 2️⃣ There will always be critics and doubters (myself included), but if you don't try you'll never know - the mantra for HomeTrendAi is: Not Trying is Failing. 3️⃣ Be easy on yourself, breathe/go for a walk/exercise, it doesn't happen over night. Anything that is worth it does not come fast or easy. Hopefully this will light the fire in at least one person to follow their passion. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

🎉 Celebrating 21 years on LinkedIn today! 🎉 Happy to share some gems 💎 from my professional journey during the past one year: 💡 I helped productize and bring to market one high-tech / deep-tech HW+SW+Electronics product, and one sports platform product. Smart people, great ideas, excellent execution. 🍀 Helped one customer to productize their specialist service in cyber security space. Very positive experience for me, thanks to the fun and dedicated team from the customer's side. 🙌 The project continues. 🧐 Took a critical look into one company's strategy and IT strategy and learned a lot about digitalization challenges in manufacturing industry. Good collaboration with the customer and feedback averaging 9/10. 👀 Searched and found a great product leader for one of our customers. Thank you Asmo Halinen for the team work. 😄 👨🏫 Delivered 10 HHJ/CBM course lecture days with Chambers of Commerce regarding efficient board work and strategy work with good participant feedback (~4/5). Thank you for your trust Mari Hakkarainen, Karoliina Korhonen, Tuula Rahikainen and Pirjo Kurki. And Thank you for inspiring discussions all the course participants! I learn from you in every encounter. 😊 💪 Improved the board work and strategy as the chair of board at Hurja Solutions Oy with a great team, thank you Vili Härkönen, Jarno Airaksinen and Ozzi Jarvinen. 🙏 In addition to getting results, having fun is a goal for every board meeting we have. 😄 🏃♂️ Participated in a strategy work marathon with Coventures' board and biggest owners. Thanks Marko Oksanen, Juho Vehviläinen, Kimmo Timonen, Mika Viskari and Teemu Malinen. The journey continues! 🗻 Every new project, course, and team is a new exciting journey with new people, new companies, new customer-base, new markets, new ideas. While it's most important that customers get high value from our work together, it's been great to gain experience through the collaboration with all of you, not to mention my network here on LinkedIn. 📈 My content received 35,958 views! Glad they sparked conversations. 🤝 I connected with 885 amazing professionals that led to exciting opportunities and insights. Thank you for being a part of my journey! ⭐️

Thank you all for the overwhelming support – we’ve had over 1,000 registrations in the first 24 hours alone! Alongside that, we’ve been flooded with emails, including some exciting offers of funding. Whilst we would love to move things forward right now, we need to wait until the Seedrs platform officially opens. That said, the **pre-registrations are still ** LIVE, and we encourage you to register if you haven’t already to secure your priority spot. All investments are on a first come first serve basis. We’ll also be opening up slots to have one-on-one discussions with those of you who’ve asked questions, and will be addressing many of your points of interest directly. But for now, here are some key highlights from our 2024 growth plan: Our Recent Achievements 💃 Grown Killing Kittens to over 12,000 annual event attendees. 🚢 Launched KK Cruise, a new venture with Azamara Cruises, generating over £450,000 in room sales within the first 12 weeks. 📱 The WAX app, generating over 750,000 monthly interactions, driving vibrant community engagement. Built For Growth We’ve taken our time to grow KK & WAX the right way, methodically building our product at every stage. Our strong tech foundations are in place, built by a world-class in-house team. Now, we’re gearing up to move into the next phase of our journey – growth. That means scaling up with the addition of new marketing talent as we turn our focus to expanding our global presence and bringing our vision to even more people. Join Us on This Journey We’re at a pivotal moment, and as always we offer our community over institutional investors the chance to share our journey. Our past investment rounds have been oversubscribed, filling up within days. Register your interest now at: https://lnkd.in/e-SaKUvs Thank you once again for being an essential part of this community – we couldn’t do it without you! Team KK & WAX 💋

Currently going through the survey results from Kubernetes Community Days Zurich! Thank you to the 87 people who helped us improve our event. 🙌 Some feedback was a given, some was new, and some issues from last year didn’t come up again because we’ve already made improvements! Here are some highlights and questions for our community: 🌟 Highlights: - Overall Event Rating: 4.4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 95% are somewhat or very likely to attend our future events ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📋 Feedback and Questions: - There’s still a debate between more vegan and more meat options. Should we consider vegan/meat instead of vegetarian next time to make everyone happy? - We will most certainly host KCD Rejects next year, but it will be very technical, aimed at those who felt the main event sessions weren’t technical enough. 💻🔧 - The biggest issue was, once again, the food queues (I agree!). But don’t worry. Viktor Farcic had a great idea for solving this next time! 🍽️🕒 Thank you all for your invaluable feedback and support. Let’s make the next KCD Zürich even better! 💪✨