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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. Most people don’t recognize their own strengths, and need your help, as well as strength assessment tools, to capitalize on them. Getting peers to help others also is a great source of satisfaction and engagement.

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5 Risk Reduction Strategies For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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5 Keys To Reducing Startup Risk By Building On Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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8 Strides For Balanced Business Thinking And Delivery

Startup Professionals Musings

Recent studies indicate that less than ten percent of business leaders show this balance today. Here is my list of key principles for creating and capitalizing on a balanced focus as a business professional or an entrepreneur: Start by marketing your vision and purpose. Listen to customer feedback and tune your vision.

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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community.

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Missed Expectations and The Eighty Percent Acquisition Rule

Berkonomics

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. How about those less-experienced buyers? So, this insight is simple.

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Missed Expectations and The Eighty Percent Acquisition Rule

Berkonomics

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. How about those less-experienced buyers? So, this insight is simple.