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10 Keys To More Satisfaction In Your Business In 2023

Startup Professionals Musings

You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2023, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your chosen business lifestyle. The happiest people are the ones who can split their focus between work and family, and get value and satisfaction from both. Keep track of your wins.

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8 Elements Of Ownership Thinking And Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I have personally worked as an employee of large businesses, as well as a partner in new ventures, and found the latter to have more potential for satisfaction. Business owners whose priority is only a financial gain will struggle to find satisfaction and happiness. The return and satisfaction were greater than the cost.

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9 Strategies For Implementing An Innovative Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/31/2023 Everyone has ideas, but only a few can make them happen.

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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. Constant attention to work devices, location, and travel is not humanly sustainable without loss of quality, satisfaction, and productivity. Loners need not apply.

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10 Strategies Of Professionals Who Love What They Do

Startup Professionals Musings

As an experienced business professional and mentor, I find that most successful peers will admit that they love what they do. I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first.

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7 Keys To Focusing Only On Challenges You Can Control

Startup Professionals Musings

Listen to your team, mentors, and customers to recognize real successes and failures, and surround yourself with people who can fill in the gaps. Make your mantra one of job satisfaction and delivering customer value, rather than avoiding failure today. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/16/2023

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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. You need both to create better outcomes and increase job satisfaction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/27/2023 Diversity and inclusion will get you started.