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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned over my years as a business mentor and investor is that life isn’t fair when it comes to succeeding in business. Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise.

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Learn How to Kiteboard Online. MentorMob Launches Free Social Online Learning Guides

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The founders are lifelong friends and lifelong learners from Chicago who have had successful careers in tech before joining forces to create the ultimate free social online learning destination that takes the best teachers on the web and curates their content into MentorMob learning Guides. Including one on kiteboarding. How does it work?

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7 Metaphors That Every Aspiring Leader Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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7 Common Themes That Indicate An Extraordinary Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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Don’t Be A Product Leader Still Failing In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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8 Ways to Unleash A Team’s Maximum Productive Power

Startup Professionals Musings

It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules. Use your high-level principles to establish behavioral frameworks to guide ways of working, rather than a scorecard enforced by culture vigilantes.

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7 Leadership Metaphors To Motivate Business Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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