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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. I define business agility for my consulting clients as the ability to change your business rapidly to meet customer and environmental changes, with minimal organizational disruption and cost. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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6 Mindsets That Separate the Most Effective Leaders

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Leaders with this “be bold” mindset are willing and able to take radically unique direction-setting actions in the face of today’s pace of change and customer demands. You must build a foundation of trust to get the relationships you need for honest communication, focus on the future, and real coaching on how to improve the business.

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5 Keys To Breaking Through Success Barriers At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t be hesitant to use coaches, mentors, and other resources to test and improve your image by others, and your perceptions of business realities and biases. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/10/2022.

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7 Key Practices for Entrepreneurs Tackling Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. The support currently provided by product service can become inadequate to satisfy new customers, as your growth and image becomes better known. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 4/18/2022.

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7 Leadership Opportunities Founders Must Never Ignore

Startup Professionals Musings

In other words, how do you recognize the challenges that really need your leadership , versus the less critical demands that seem to always bubble to the top? Customer feedback in the form of online reviews and poor customer service is often rationalized as unreasonable expectations or one or two crazy individuals.

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10 Ways To Make Your Own Luck Driving Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Passion is great, but it must be backed by data, confirming a real problem and customers willing and able to pay for your solution. Too many business people let the daily challenges cause them to revert to emotional and autocratic demands, failure to communicate, and inability to coach and mentor team members.

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7 Ways To Find And Nurture Future Leaders In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business owner I know wishes that all team members were leaders, to proactively tackle the challenges of growth , interact effectively with customers on their needs, and eventually step into your role. Notice people who always take a customer perspective. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever.

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