Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required. You can’t do it alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company. Businesses today include an increasing diversity of team members, as well as customers, due to remote work and a global market. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/2/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

I realize that you may want to spare the team your worries over market changes and competitors, but transparency on these matters creates trust and connection, and improves their focus on agility and inspires innovation. Spend time coaching and mentoring team members. Help them learn more about your vision and future market goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Traditional command leadership allowed individual biases and ego to reduce team engagement and miss market changes and new competitors. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/17/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

You need leaders who focus on delivering value to the market and dealing with competitors, addressing customer and competitive needs now and in the long-term. Mentoring and coaching are also important. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 6/10/2022. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Today even small businesses need complex organizations that work together in alignment, remote and online, including marketing, sales, delivery, and support. You must build a foundation of trust to get the relationships you need for honest communication, focus on the future, and real coaching on how to improve the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 4/5/2022. Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon, attributes much of his success to building a motivated and enabled team.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

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