Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 25, 2019
Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Yet I find in my mentoring practice that more and more team members prefer the human-centered approach and respond with more engagement and commitment. Make it clear that you always aim for progress, expect mistakes, and recognize that course-corrections or pivots are normal in business. Develop self-awareness of your triggers.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2014
Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Volunteering with local organizations.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Volunteering with local organizations.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have been there and done that make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Go with topics you are interested in and need today.
Frank Addante
OCTOBER 12, 2021
A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. I met an inspiring professor who ran the case development named Professional Noam Wasserman. Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! I’m super excited about it! More on that later.) In a big way!
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