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6 Sources Of Purpose To Drive Business Success Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today more than ever, the evidence is clear that business people need to find and communicate a purpose that goes beyond making a profit, in order to ensure customer engagement, as well as your own, and drive results in the marketplace. As you grow, so will your team and customers. Driven to reduce personal hardship and suffering.

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7 Leadership Opportunities Founders Must Never Ignore

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience of many years as a business founder, consultant, and executive, I offer the following list of situations that always imply a real need for people and business leadership, and have the potential for long-term positive impact to your bottom line and business success: Your business image is slipping in the eyes of customers.

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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. I define business agility for my consulting clients as the ability to change your business rapidly to meet customer and environmental changes, with minimal organizational disruption and cost. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/18/2022.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Business Working Like A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/2/2022.

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5 Keys To Being Seen As A Valued Contributor At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

I was pleased to see some specific guidance on how team members can better communicate their value at work, without self-aggrandizing, in a new book, “ Influence and Impact ,” by Bill Berman and George Bradt, who speak from experience as a psychologist, and years of coaching in companies across multiple industries.

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8 Aspects Of Team Well-Being Drive Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 4/1/2022. Emotional stability.

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10 Ways To Make Your Own Luck Driving Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Passion is great, but it must be backed by data, confirming a real problem and customers willing and able to pay for your solution. Too many business people let the daily challenges cause them to revert to emotional and autocratic demands, failure to communicate, and inability to coach and mentor team members.

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