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6 Ways To Learn From Failure, And Beat Success Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, you probably never knew that both Facebook and YouTube started out as dating-site experiments, but pivoted to something more unique when that experiment failed due to an apparently over-crowded market. Leaders need to reward experiments, rather than demand fixed processes. Establish mentoring and coaching relationships.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Favor People-Centric Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. Would everyone on your team agree and return the focus?

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Tech Startup Culture May Have Changed For Good

Tech.Co

You know what a startup is, right? Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in? That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions.

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7 Leadership Actions To Win In This New World Of Work

Startup Professionals Musings

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today.

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Romances Are Common At Work, But The Risks Are Great

Startup Professionals Musings

We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying to maintain an emotional distance from others in the work environment. Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

In some cases it may be fear of retribution by the boss, but more often they just hate to disappoint others, and end up instead with high stress and low credibility in the crisis to deliver. Green, a noted executive coach, speaker, and CEO of Brilliance, Inc. Be sure to follow-up as promised, to maintain your credibility.

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