Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. With the mentoring approach, the mentee asks for your support in their decision, or asks for your insight on the considerations for them making a future decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The experts define emotional intelligence as a leader's ability to recognize individual and team emotions, to understand their effect, and manage your own to guide your next move. Mentors and coaches are always willing to help you find creative ways around roadblocks, even ones you don’t even see.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

In my role as a business mentor and advisor, I now always look for a culture and recommend team roles that nurture collaboration rather than contention, communities rather than silos , and transparent communication at all levels. Feedback is so critical for any business leader, both in how to give and receive it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Unfortunately, many aspiring leaders I mentor are not aware of the signals people are looking for, or are not attuned to the subtleties of their own actions. Show humility while acting as a mentor and coach. High-trust leaders see themselves as stewards, rather than owners, guiding people, assets, and decision making.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Implement the key business metrices you will live by. This is the stage where you move from managing by your gut to managing by numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. With the five-minute mentoring approach, the mentee asks for your support in their decision, or asks for your insight on the considerations for them making a future decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2013

As a guide, I enjoyed the analysis of Eric Chester, in his book “ Reviving Work Ethic ,” which provides a leader’s guide to ending entitlement and restoring pride in the emerging workforce. The best time to address expected norms is before hiring, and mentoring with one-on-one conversations must supplement rulebooks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules. Use your high-level principles to establish behavioral frameworks to guide ways of working, rather than a scorecard enforced by culture vigilantes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

I found him a coach, and we suggested the following steps that may help you as well in declining requests from peers, without leading with the “no” that you find hard to express: Ask for a small delay, to give you time to think. Offer one-minute mentoring up front, and stick to it. Have you ever noticed how many “Do you have a minute?”

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

Experiencing the feelings of a neophyte will make you more sympathetic the next time you coach someone at a task in which you excel. Avoid The Self-guided Tour. You''re Never Too Old For A Mentor , describes the benefits of working with an experienced sherpa to conquer a new and challenging phase of your life.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. At best they can be your history guide. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. That is what separates us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2012

As a guide, I enjoyed the analysis of Eric Chester, in his new book “ Reviving Work Ethic ,” which provides a leader’s guide to ending entitlement and restoring pride in the emerging workforce. The best time to address expected norms is before hiring, and mentoring with one-on-one conversations must supplement rulebooks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. They'll take the risk of chocolate cake over the risk of diabetes in five years.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. In LA I know that people like Vince Thompson do a great job with this. Now was time to bring in some process.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet. The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

But Spurs coach, Gregg Popovich used his many years of experience to deliberate a plan that was well executed and surprised even the experts in the game, leading the underdog team to a Game 7 against the defending champions. Heat coach, Eric Spoelstra adapted to what the Spurs were doing because their initial game plan was not working.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I met with a lawyer, talked to an investor and a few mentors, all who are serial entrepreneurs to advise me. But a wise mentor of mine said, “Go with your gut! It’s amusing at the very least when I share this story to my mentors, advisors and peers. Interesting offer considering he did nothing. LESSONS AND LAUGHS.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. One woman’s success is another woman’s success – help, mentor, guide them, etc. We need to start mentoring more women in high school to get excited about the tech scene.

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