This set of tips around creating a productive, open, adaptive work exerience with a supportive team by David Weiden puts emphasis on honesty, personal relationships, and flexibility as cornerstones to a healthy work space.

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This guide from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley highlights methods to work with a team

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This presentation by the Cleantech to Market(C2M) program higlights a set of tips and guidelines to solve interpersonal and team dynamics issues to have a successful working team.

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This guide from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley lays out a problem solving process by which to frame, understand, and develop a solution for a given problem. Specifically, the framework takes a path through (1) understanding the problem, (2) collecting data to uncover relationships, (3) analyzing and synthesizing this data, (4) ideate solutions, and (5) test these solutions.

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This guide, from the Cleantech to Market(C2M) program and class at Haas School of Business, provides relevant questions for team members to answer while establishing a working relationship and team rapport at the startup of a group project.

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This presentation higlights the cultural elements that Netflix management sees as valuable within members making up a dynamic, effective organization: Judgement, Communication, Impact, Curiousity, Innovation, Courage, Passion, Honesty, Selflessness

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Ben Horowitz, successful entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz explains the philosophy behind the firms most controversial investment strategy, that of preferne for keeping on founding CEOs. Industry wisdom generally indicates that startup CEOs should be replaced with professional CEOs to scale the business after achieving product-market fit, but Horowitz points to numerous historical examples indicating the opposite, and highlights the continuity and strength of vision of founding CEOs to make his point.

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This presentation by Lindy Greer of the Stanford Graduate School of Business focuses on emphasizing the importance of diversity and working with new recruits to maintain your valuable team culture in building your startup team. She also points out pitfalls of hiring such as hiring a homogenous team, and hiring only when you need to fill a gap.

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