Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I agree with her eight key attributes of a head and heart leader, which I paraphrase here, in hopes of challenging your own thinking, In addition, I am providing some of my own practical insights to inspire and help you become the type of business leader I sense the world needs today: Lead with curiosity as a team role model.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Livestrong said its new MyQuit Coach iPhone application--which costs $3.99

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In my role as business advisor, I’m hearing more and more about workers who seem to be doing less and demanding more. They lead or follow, on demand rather than by command. Of course, you need to support this culture by providing continuous opportunities for training and industry updates, and coaching as well as feedback sessions.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2011

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the health and wellness site run by Demand Media, is trumpeting two pieces of app news today. LIVESTRONG.COM's MyQuit Coash app provides reminders and guidance to smokers looking to quite smoking; the calorie tracker app tracks what people are eating to help them with their diet goals.

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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. Helping your team motivates them to drive your business. Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. You all have to deal today primarily with on-demand customers in an on-demand economy.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

“In that kind of environment, it’s easy to develop a ‘work family’ that actually makes it easier to have work/life balance – knowing the people working for you helps to create a more humane working environment for everyone.” And they look to us, their workspace, to help them achieve it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. This is a win-win approach, since it often helps people accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work. Help them to know when to say ‘no’ or at least ‘not right now.’ Provide coaching and facilitate mentorship from others in the company for growth. Start with ‘How are you?’ and leave time for the answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

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 as the leader need only to set the template and the tempo, like conducting an orchestra, and demand and reward disciplined execution of tasks that only the team can do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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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. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been.

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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

JUNE 17, 2022

The ability to build a team, as well as the intelligence to ask for help, is a huge bit of luck. 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. Maintain your health and well-balanced lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

You need to take responsibility for selling your value to the right people, as well as building relationships with leaders who can help you. 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.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Robin Richards: Brand amplification and brand protection are critical to companies, in helping them attract and retain employees. Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. That's been very effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. This is a win-win approach, since it often helps people accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

I’m not talking about the social butterflies, but people who always seem to engage with the right people to help get the job done, both upward and downward. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever. Mentoring and coaching are also important. Focus on team members who develop relationships.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports. Coach Lombardi put teamwork first (which is why we did, too). As probably the most famous football coach of all time, it seems to have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Positive workplace relationships can help balance some difficult issues you are facing outside of work. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work.

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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. Form collaborative relationships to help and support you. Engage others in inspiring a bold vision of change.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking. She stood in front of the sales executives and shouted at them like she was a high school football coach. It’s hard and awkward to do this because silence demands a response.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Positive workplace relationships can help balance some difficult issues you are facing outside of work. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Many new venture owners have trouble disengaging from the escalating demands of their business to celebrate the small successes of the people and customers who depend on them. The best leader personality for larger organizations is one of providing help and resources, rather than extracting performance.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

After lots of success himself, he basically says that most of the success you have in your life has to do with the people you come across in your life, who help you out. On the demand side of our business, we have open ended insertion orders, and we're up to our ears in people who want to buy our unit. He talks a lot about this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. You can’t demand total loyalty from all, so you have to learn to accept criticism without being defensive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today. Leaders today must always project confidence and help others develop confidence, courage, and curiosity. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. I have written some posts in the past that may be helpful. How to separate what you read in the press from your reality on the ground and the surrounding yourself with support systems to help. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup. I’m honored. We are expecting a full house!

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But the “Boardroom Ready” program, as it’s called, is the result of widespread demand for action to break biotech’s glass ceiling. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. Morgan conference in January.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

Temperamental Superstars – These individuals episodically perform at a high level, yet they constantly demand a high level of managerial attention to assuage and reassure their oversized egos. I typically avoid Temperamental Superstars, as they can have a dramatically negative impact on a healthy corporate culture.

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