Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

YOU Selling – My wise old friend & mentor, Ameet Shah, once told me after a meeting we had with clients (when I worked at Accenture), “there are two ways to run a meeting: asking or telling. If you get no love after that you might be in for a tough meeting.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As a mentor to many business professionals and owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find a wealth of innovative ideas, but often less insight on what it really takes to transform ideas into an income stream that can excite new customers into long-term business success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear. These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars.

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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. I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change.

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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. I’m super excited about it! He interviewed me for a book called the Founder’s Dillema. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up! In a big way!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In fact, in my experience as an executive and a mentor to entrepreneurs, sustainable results require a balance between hard work and learning , for you and your team members. No matter how hard you work as a business leader or entrepreneur, you can’t sustain consistent results without an equally hardworking team, each with a learning mindset.

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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. I’m super excited about it! He interviewed me for a book called the Founder’s Dillema. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up! In a big way!

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Resources – Many campuses offer entrepreneurial students a variety of free resources, such as: incubators, accelerators, mentor programs, venture competitions (with meaningful prize money) and even seed funding. Nearly all the Professors agreed that students should stay in school, even if their venture is doing well.

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