Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2019

Vision is not a group-think activity. But the dichotomy is that there are things that you have to do alone. The buck stops here.” You have to be decisive, accept responsibility, and provide the vision. Sometimes decisions have to be made quickly, and with very little hard data, so you need the confidence in your gut. Manage risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Both sides need to practice active listening and thoughtful questions. That’s the ultimate satisfaction. Practice two-way communication and candid feedback. Mentoring is not a series of monologues and lectures, from either side. But candid feedback means not pulling punches when they are deserved. Constructive conflict is good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It seems they are both looking for more personal satisfaction and sense of purpose for their efforts. Even the simplest of new technologies, such as Zoom for remote meetings, can be a detriment to work satisfaction if workers are not trained on how to use it effectively, causing video and sound problems, as well as background distractions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first. Don’t make commitments that have no potential for positive return on your effort, or no potential for learning or satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. For most people, a truly fulfilled life means active pursuit and high engagement in pursuing your own goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most workers are still rushing to retirement, where they hope to escape to more stimulating activities with a real sense of accomplishment. Employee engagement is a measure of emotional commitment, leading to work focus, which translates to productivity, satisfaction and happiness. No one is happy or satisfied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every team needs to understand how their activities relate to customer revenue. Key activities. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2022

A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Negative leader behaviors affect work satisfaction for everyone. Only you can activate the positive forces that enable progress, including “catalysts” and “nourishers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

Here is a summary of my recommendations for picking the right battles in a business environment, and how to fight challenges most effectively for satisfaction and growth: Set personal objectives and make your own decisions. Follow your own interests and business insights to increase satisfaction and long-term success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I was shocked to read an old Gallup study that indicates only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more recent data shows only a small change in the right direction. Find ways to recharge your emotional batteries, through supportive relationships and community activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So here are my own top recommendations on how to think about your business aspirations, and put innovation in perspective among all the other priorities you will need to achieve success and satisfaction with your role on the road ahead. Search for customer pain rather than high margins. Experiment and pivot to avoid ‘big bang’ expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Based on my own mentoring experience, here are seven key lessons I have learned, and offer to you as a potential source of inspiration and satisfaction, after some success in your business: Relationships are the real key to business success. Sharing through mentoring amplifies your satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

I believe that advocating for others needs to start with active listening and acceptance of ideas from team members around you. I recommend that you follow their example, and you too can experience the legacy and satisfaction of long-term success and satisfaction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/28/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

It’s amazing how quickly these activities lead to leadership or management opportunities. Constant attention to work devices, location, and travel is not humanly sustainable without loss of quality, satisfaction, and productivity. Stretch here also increases job satisfaction. Find what works for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine key activities, as follows: Get focused and identify goals. He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Get attention and reach your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2023

I recommend his checklist as a starting point for developing team connections and building engaged team members as a key step in becoming an effective team leader, even if your team is spread all over the country: Consciously reduce time spent on outside activities. If your team has trouble finding you, you won’t make productive connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

Their satisfaction comes from proving nay-sayers wrong. Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Make sure you actively interact with and show appreciation for people smarter than you, even if they don’t always agree with you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Demonstrate active listening in a neutral location. Face-to-face you can better demonstrate active listening through body language and playing back what you have heard. The longer a conflict is active, the more likely that positions will harden, and emotions will make resolution more painful than productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Every entrepreneur needs to compare his strengths and aspirations to this business mindset: Satisfaction from business success versus the big idea. Business owners get their satisfaction from happy customers and happy stakeholders. Relish repeatable activities and processes versus new challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The entrepreneurs I respect actively look for the next problem, celebrate every success, and see failures as learning events. Outside connections usually come by taking a more active role in your industry and community. People who see problems as negatives to be overcome are doomed to a life of unhappiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2022

I have found that introducing fun and creative activities is a great way to inspire people to share a few details about themselves. Especially when team members can’t see you due to remote work or industry activities, may sure they know what you are doing and why. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I believe the right attributes and habits can be recognized and learned, and here are seven key ones that I find in successful entrepreneurs: Actively recruits others and solicits win-win relationships. Asks hard questions, and actively listens to critical feedback. Positive relationship building is always a plus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

They enjoy not being on the road most of time, and able to balance their activities and leadership roles between work and family, sports, or recreation. This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy. Lifestyle businesses offer personal tax advantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the current strong economy I’m seeing a continued resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. In addition, young businesses that are still active after one year continues to hover at nearly 80%. The investment thesis has shifted from “growth at all costs” to “growth with fundamentals.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some well-known business leaders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg , always kept an active mentor relationship with a peer or two, to discuss business challenges and strategy. Don’t be afraid to ask for advice from peers, your advisory board, and outside experts and mentors. Good business leaders collaborate on tough decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This situation is only exacerbated by today’s remote work from home , where your work problems are unseen by others, and you have to manage the distractions of normal home activities, including children and pets. Your career and your job satisfaction are at stake, as well as the long-term health of your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Free up your energy to be spent on more productive activities, and learn from past efforts. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. The cost has been far more than offset by both customer loyalty and advocacy, as well as team spirit. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Establish vehicles, like a formal customer satisfaction program, to recognize and reward staff and customers for sharing what they can do to help you. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. These enhanced capabilities transform the search experience from a passive retrieval process into an active, dynamic interaction.

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