Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. You must feel satisfaction. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Your team, properly selected, trained, and engaged, can focus on tomorrow’s requirements, learn from mistakes, and implement the constant improvements required to stay competitive.

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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

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

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job. Don’t let anyone kill your dreams and passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

As with most investors and advisors, I always look first at some key personal characteristics and leadership strategies that I find often make you a more likely survivor and winner in the highly competitive world of businesses, both new and mature. I believe in the old axiom, “ no risk means no reward.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With some coaching and mentoring from other leaders, I was able to do it myself, so I know you can do it too, by committing to the following strategies: Train yourself to always look for positives, not negatives. Take satisfaction from wins to balance against setbacks. Write down your top 5 core values and review them often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Discourage internal team competition and silos. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads. If they see you as the competition or the enemy, you will never get winning results. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. Embrace the real you as your competitive advantage. Accept the fact that authenticity is necessary for leadership effectiveness.

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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

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities. No one likes useless work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. The stakes are higher than ever in this competitive and rapidly changing world. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I’m not an expert on leadership, so I am always on the lookout for specific development guidance, such as the classic book, “ Leadership Results ,” by the well-known leadership coach and business psychologist, Sebastian Salicru. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. The best coaches are people who care about you as a person, without any ulterior motives, and intend to inspire you to be the best that you can be. A good coach is not a critic. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Real leaders improve the readiness, training, and preparation for these events, so that circumstances are not a source of pain, but are expected and can be accomplished with personal satisfaction. The personal preferences and ego of anyone in the company has little to do long-term business success and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2016

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of solving them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2013

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’m not an expert on leadership, so I am always on the lookout for specific development guidance, such as the new book, “ Leadership Results ,” by the well-known leadership coach and business psychologist, Sebastian Salicru. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2012

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2011

Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of solving them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2010

Related reasons, like personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are often more important than financial ones. Beat the competition. High level of excitement. The cycle never stops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

This indicates that lifestyle and satisfaction factors are usually more important than financial ones. Entrepreneurs love the continuous challenges of a startup, and the satisfaction of tackling them. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition. High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

As I outline key ones in my coaching practice, I find that many people have never tried them and even find them counter-intuitive: Stop multitasking and focus on the task at hand. Your competitive drive for success will cause you to dive in with more energy and not be easily distracted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching. The stakes are higher than ever in this competitive and rapidly changing world. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Make doing the right thing your competitive edge today, and the key to your long-term success. Set the bar high on standards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

These will provide the competitive edge you need with customers and less-focused team members. For your own business, the right time to address expected norms is during coaching and before hiring. The best work ethic for business is all about serving others, or win-win relationships rather than win-lose deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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