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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

As I talk to many of you in my role as business advisor, I still often hear the concern for maximum return to the business and stakeholders, more than a passion for sustainably enriching the lives of your customers and team. This applies to your own team, as well as customers. Make every customer experience memorable.

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6 Work Myths To Ignore To Enhance Your Company Career

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, in my role as advisor to small businesses, I find many people who still believe some old myths that work should never be fun, and create a self-fulfilling prophecy that takes down their sense of well-being , as well as their company results. It also attracts more customers. Most people don’t really want to work hard.

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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Johnson accepted full company accountability on Twitter for a racial profiling incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. A community requires two-way communication and respect – including advisors, partners, and customers.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Elon Musk says he seeks out innovations from his team by constantly asking them how they can make things better, how often they get out of internal meetings and into customer shops, and actively encouraging them to try new things. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team.

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6 Keys To Finding The Right People For A Winning Team

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of rapid change, the pandemic, and worldwide competition, you need to make sure your entire team is customer-focused, innovative, and always looking around the corner for the next big thing. Recent articles report that companies where everyone is focused on the big picture can increase their returns by up to 400 percent.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

Startup Professionals Musings

According to consistent feedback over the past several years, even in the best companies, employees seem stuck at less than 40 percent happy and "fully engaged.” Enhance intrinsic motivation through coaching. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/16/2021. Embrace negative emotions as a prelude to positives.