Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Make sure that metrics and goals are set up front, and not modified as the project progresses. If key metrics and expectations rely on results from another group, then you have a conflict which prevents accountability from either group. This will generate trust, loyalty, and continued accountability within the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization. Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others. Setting your own metrics, and measuring yourself , will facilitate accountability.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Value creation. Idea management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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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. I still see organizations that penalize teams for change requests, and try to live by the old adage of “it’s always been done this way.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Value creation. Idea management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” I always ask the potential investor, “would you mind if I contacted Josephine Wright and organize for her to speak with you for 20 minutes?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Mistrustful leaders and organizations are preoccupied with keeping people from doing their worst. Define metrics to measure what you want to achieve. Making sure the best idea wins, not the most powerful person, promotes a sense of teamwork and leadership trust from deep within an organization. Empower others to do their best.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

The best leader personality for larger organizations is one of providing help and resources, rather than extracting performance. That means a priority on coaching and mentoring, as well as training and tools, before focusing on results metrics. Work on being a facilitator rather than a driver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Value creation. Idea management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

These authors, who both have extensive credentials as executive coaches with top tier business leaders around the world, detail six factors of change that every business needs to address today to keep ahead of the wave. Historically, organizations played down the role of work-based personal relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Limit your scaling efforts to organic growth. It’s a big change. That’s necessary but not sufficient to scale most businesses.

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