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How Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Hesitate To Seek Help

Startup Professionals Musings

While starting a new business always involves tackling many new challenges, I’ve personally found myself reluctant to ask for help. Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction. This lets you evolve your strategy with the market.

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7 Principles For Success As An Owner Or Team Member

Startup Professionals Musings

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. People in larger organizations move away from day-to-day contact with the end customer, and focus becomes company internal and isolated. Optimizing risk, not minimizing it.

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6 Work Activities Are Required For Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity. If you are not sure of your best fit, like many people I know, I just found help in a new book, “ The 6 Types of Working Genius ,” by Patrick Lencioni. In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Entice advocates and influencers to help you. Be proactive is reaching out for support and help. Effective scaling and growth often requires more investment than is available from early organic returns.

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6 Strategies For Establishing A Vibrant Business Team

Startup Professionals Musings

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want. Transform team member mindsets, behavior, and results.

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. You must feel satisfaction. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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