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6 Essential Leadership Practices Raise Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Phrases like “holding people accountable” imply negative consequences or punishment, rather than rewards or providing the freedom and coaching to team members to choose their own actions, and pursue what matters most to them. Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Developing Leadership Skills: What You Need to Know

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. Starting and leading a business is not rocket science.

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5 Ways To Optimize Team Satisfaction In The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

Put away permanently your “suck it up” voice. If you want team member work to change for the better, make that voice shut up. In addition to the right words, be sure you present the right body language. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. The result is trust built in you and a positive feeling on both sides.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Bridge The Knowing-Doing Gap

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. Starting and building a business is not rocket science.

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. Exatly a year ago was the very beginning of KarmaGoat, where I was trying to come up with something that would work as a marketplace donating items.

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