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Team Member Competency Is Critical To Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training.

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Don’t Let the Peter Principle Kill Your Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training.

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Many Entrepreneurs Suffer From the Peter Principle

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Fourth, is all the friends we've made.

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How to Avoid the ‘Peter Principle’ in Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. Deborah Ramo: There's a great big disconnect.

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

Tech Zulu Event

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team. 2) Plan and Execute. 7) Learn From the Best.

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