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Smart Entrepreneurs Favor People-Centric Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I believe that business leaders and entrepreneurs need to focus first on people leadership, rather than process leadership. Thus I find that the best entrepreneurs and business leaders today are people-centric, but they never forget that efficient repeatable processes are required as the business scales up.

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6 Ways To Learn From Failure, And Beat Success Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs and new business owners often ask me for a secret formula for success, and they seem surprised when I tell them there isn’t one. Leaders need to reward experiments, rather than demand fixed processes. Establish mentoring and coaching relationships. Eliminate any drama and penalties from failed experiments.

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7 Leadership Actions To Win In This New World Of Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 10/06/2017. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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6 Steps To Saying No At Work To Your Boss And Peers

Startup Professionals Musings

Green, a noted executive coach, speaker, and CEO of Brilliance, Inc. A key part of her message that resonated with me, as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is her guidance on how to deal with the constant demands and requests that every business founder faces. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/20/2017.

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