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8 Strategies For Remaining Cool And Collected At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, many of the business professionals I meet these days in my mentoring and consulting activities feel perennially stressed and out of control, versus calm and satisfied with their position. Another alternative is to switch often to less demanding tasks, such as email or managing by walking around.

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5 Keys To Capitalizing On Nondisruptive Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many business professionals, I find many who are risk-averse or not confident in their own abilities to make forward-looking decisions. There are many areas currently ripe for nondisruptive innovation, including aging of the world’s population, managing world energy demand, and probing deeper into our place in the universe.

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8 Strategies to Boost Your Leadership Impact at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and mentor to many young entrepreneurs, I often get questions about leadership challenges , and what you can do to solidify your leadership position and impact. It seems that today’s worker generation is more demanding, and less willing to accept guidance and direction from anyone with a leadership title.

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8 Key Human-Centered Leadership Elements In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I find in my mentoring practice that more and more team members prefer the human-centered approach and respond with more engagement and commitment. Start by getting people comfortable with what they don’t know, showing them you are open to new ideas, and don’t demand perfection in all deliverables.

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8 Keys To Improving Your Image And Career Advancement

Startup Professionals Musings

Inside the organization, it also pays to offer some of your time for coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members, as an entrée to a supportive relationship. Successful people are able to find enough personal time off to balance personal needs against the constant barrage of work demands. Loners need not apply.

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