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Should you be optimistic about your corporate growth?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] The exciting sounds of an office filled to capacity functioning in a growth environment are exhilarating to most that have experienced it. It is the excitement of activity that generates more and better output for most, not the isolation of silence. But back to “the tyranny of the new office.”

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Is “management by walking around” an outmoded fad?

Berkonomics

One of the CEOs I used to coach started his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. A good manager can feel the mood and the level of business activity, but not easily from behind a desk or on the other end of a phone or Zoom call.

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8 Habits You Need To Cultivate For Maximum Efficiency

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Extending your Runway!

Berkonomics

There are five types of resources a great board or active investor can add to a company. Further, just because someone volunteers to invest doesn’t make that person into a coach or expert, although many seem to think their investment gives them the right to be that coach or expert. Extending the Runway book available at Amazon.

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8 Mental Strategies To Keep Your Mind Clear And Calm

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Small Business Administration (SBA) federally guaranteed bank loans are available again after years of limited activity.

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How And Where To Connect To The Entrepreneur Universe

Startup Professionals Musings

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs.