Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. Don't forget the pizza parties and deskside beers funded by a seemingly endless stream of venture capitalist money, either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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? As United Airlines found out a few years ago, delays in addressing customer or vendor problems can cost you more in a single day than many companies make in a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. If you find yourself being surprised by new competitor offerings and customer demands, then perhaps you are not paying attention. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Every one of you business leaders I know struggles with the competing demands of finding and keeping employees motivated and satisfied, versus building and enforcing a set of repeatable processes that work. Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see the same conclusion in a new book, “ CEO Excellence ,” by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra, each a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. You need to make it about more than money, focus on future possibilities, solve for the whole, and kill as much as you create. Keep the teams strong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

She brings more than twenty years of experience building and working with globally dispersed teams and Fortune 500 companies around the world. It’s all about contributing and being connected to team and company values for improving the lives of customers, or possibly a higher-level purpose, such as saving the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2012

It makes for a valued worker, who will stay in high demand. Every job relationship must start with the employee giving respect, before demanding it in return. Integrity and coach-ability. Are you and your company part of the problem, or part of the solution? It isn’t a value that only benefits the employer and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Of course, you should always be available and willing to coach members when requested, or share your experience and skill. Too many teams I know live in constant fear of unjustified reprisals and repeated demands. There is a huge difference between keeping initiatives under wraps, and employees not knowing the status of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. 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.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . It’s the root of real achievement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. FourSquare.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

found in polling more than 700 professionals at companies nationwide, that 58 percent had participated in an office romance, and almost three-quarters of those who’ve had relationships said they’d be willing to engage in another one. in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

He and I both believe that the key to high growth in any company is a learning culture, led from the highest executive levels. Everyone agrees that establishing and maintaining a company-wide learning culture is not so easy. Leaders need to reward experiments, rather than demand fixed processes. It’s up to you to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You may recognize these in your own company, and can overcome all of them with a proactive management focus and conviction: Everyone is proceeding with unreasonable expectations. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. Be prepared to create and train a dedicated support group that can keep up with your now larger and growing install base of demanding customers. They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Companies that have focused on sustainability and social responsibility, in addition to ethical business practices, such as Patagonia and Zappos , claim more than three times the return of average companies over the last 10 years. Manage your company based on long-term priorities. Be a coach, rather than a dictator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Customer Custom Coach Satisfaction 92

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

People seem polarized between, “that’s what it takes to succeed” to “I can’t believe what a heartless, intolerant and misogynistic company culture they’ve built.” What about a top athlete in the NFL or NBA or even part of the coaching staff. Think your favorite company Apple is a cake walk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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