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7 Principles For Success As An Owner Or Team Member

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

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6 Ways To Build A Business Based On A Higher Purpose

Startup Professionals Musings

For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion. For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations.

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

TechCrunch LA

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.”

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

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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7 Business Leadership Keys To A Thriving New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

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7 Staffing Strategies That May Cost You Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Hiring in any new venture needs to be a structured and high priority task, not the ad hoc informal process I see in many startups that are struggling to grow: Crisis mode hiring rather than planned team growth. I’m not suggesting executive search firms for every startup position, but national recruiting organizations will get better results.

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7 Ways To Hire Your Way To Failure In A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s no wonder that 45 percent of startups fail in the first five years, and an even smaller percentage ever see a return for their years of effort. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Quick to hire and slow to fire.