Want to make sure your venture takes off? As you likely already know, you can’t do it alone, and you’re going to need to lead your team to success! Check out this piece on becoming an inclusive leader to find out how you can make sure you’re recognizing the potential in your team:

The most successful entrepreneurs have a natural curiosity to ask others for thoughts and feedback on their ideas. Simply put, they’re inclusive. Yet as businesses grow and functions become more siloed, the idea of pinging others for their insights, usually dissipates.

But there are certain realities in today’s new business normal that suggest that business leaders ought to do more listening than talking:

Every business is now global. Even if you don’t plan on selling any goods or services beyond your geographic region, you will still compete with those who do. Selling products or services to divergent markets requires diverse insights that can be gleaned from a diverse workforce. If you shut yourself off to the groups that make up the new global consumer landscape, you will fall behind your competitors.

Full piece here.