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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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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. I have seen too many careers and businesses fail due to projects that went off the rails. Stretch here also increases job satisfaction. Find what works for you.

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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7 Key Steps To Getting Top Performance From Your Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Practice process coaching, but not edicting decisions. I recently was an advisor to a very strong technical executive who insisted on “being involved” in literally every decision in his startup. He ignored my advice and ultimately lost several key executives, and then his own health, due to stress and workload.

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10 Leadership Elements That Maximize Business Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet in this age of technology, many seem to favor tools and data to get the edge, or can’t find the time to talk to real people. Each time I mentor an entrepreneur, I learn new things about their technology, customers, and business domain. Regularly review progress and adjust focus (Review and Renewal).

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8 Activities To Satisfy Your Boss You Are Accountable

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons. None of us can be accountable if we don’t know what is expected, or don’t have the required tools or training. Don’t pretend or actually be the victim.

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