Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Employee engagement is a measure of emotional commitment, leading to work focus, which translates to productivity, satisfaction and happiness. It starts with a mindset, but requires a like-minded community and culture to survive. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity. Build engagement through culture and mindset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

I have personally worked as an employee of large businesses, as well as a partner in new ventures, and found the latter to have more potential for satisfaction. Many business leaders today, including Howard Schultz , didn’t start the businesses they are now known for, but worked their way up the corporate ranks with ownership thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Johnson accepted full company accountability on Twitter for a racial profiling incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. You generally don’t fix things by throwing them away and starting over.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In my experience as an employee, up to an executive, in large companies as well as small, I’ve found that people who are consistently negative and complain are a big constraint on productivity, as well as the most difficult management problem that most business leaders face. Administer regular morale and satisfaction surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. In fact, customers today also seem more attracted to companies with a higher purpose than profit. Don’t wait for a crisis to decide what is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Coaching – Practice active listening and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

For all entrepreneurs, starting a business is the route to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no matter how risky. Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70 percent of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. If you are here in the U.S., High level of excitement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. Don’t let anyone kill your dreams and passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Disruptive office politics start to show. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. The time to get started is now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. True leaders are tenacious, determined, and self-starting. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford. Tenacious: be persistent in your pursuits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

One of the biggest challenges in changing your lifestyle from an employee to starting your own business, is focusing on the right ownership elements, versus having a boss who sets the business goals, and provides performance feedback. I now believe that every entrepreneur needs to think like an A-Player.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Your goal must be to make every aspect of a customer interaction a joy to both you and them, starting from the shopping experience, to the sales close, to delivery and service. Business and customer satisfaction data measurements are required, in addition to subjective assessments of team progress, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

I see that model changing today to one of team collaboration and decision making, per companies such as Amazon, Google, and Zoom. Modern companies like Amazon credit much of their growth and success to rewarding of change innovations, including failures. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the biggest challenges in changing your lifestyle from an employee to starting your own business, is focusing on the right ownership elements, versus having a boss who sets the business goals, and provides performance feedback. I now believe that every entrepreneur needs to think like an A-Player.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Team members want development plus satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

He assures us that these apply to an external crisis that you have no control over, or an internal screwup, or just the kinds of growing pains that hit every company: Keep your focus on how to fix the problem. The challenge for many bosses is to recognize when their team should be coaching them. Provide tools and resources as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. When start performers fade, it’s almost always a failure to remain engaged with the people and the job. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

Most of you will start your business with plenty of passion and purpose, but all too often I see both disappearing after months of facing unanticipated setbacks and challenges. There is increasing evidence that employee happiness and job satisfaction, including yours, does not scale up with your success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Disruptive office politics start to show. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. In reality, many companies now offer a “ clicks and bricks ” business model, with shopping online, and then completing the purchase and support at a physical location.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. The remainder usually exit within five years, to start the process over again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Start with your own story, the mission of your business, and how to make everyone in your domain, including customers, into advocates and teachers. Sir Richard Branson , who controls over 400 active companies, never appears to be even working. Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The old fable of “you are known by the company you keep” has never been more true. That means public recognition of individual achievements, providing feedback, and coaching and mentoring along the way. Be self-starting and tenacious on key challenges. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

To spice things up, they start creating new ideas and direction, which gets everyone excited. Many projects get started but few are completed, and momentum is lost. They enjoy the coaching and development role, and are able to match work assignments to people’s strengths, promoting both people and company growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. The time to get started is now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For many, it’s hard to make the switch from that top-down order-giving culture, and it’s hard to find the time to recruit and coach the new team members you need to scale the business to success. Encourage your team to make decisions and take action. Keep teams small, diverse, and collaborative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

To spice things up, they start creating new ideas and direction, which gets everyone excited. Many projects get started but few are completed, and momentum is lost. They enjoy the coaching and development role, and are able to match work assignments to people’s strengths, promoting both people and company growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. This question-based leadership approach starts with humility and a firm belief in the old adage, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2016

For all entrepreneurs, starting a business is the route to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no matter how risky. Personal satisfaction also ranked close behind, with 70% of respondents claiming it was a key advantage to running their own business. If you are here in the U.S., Choosing entrepreneurship is no exception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. When start performers fade, it’s almost always a failure to remain engaged with the people and the job. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction.

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Startup Case Study Competition Entrepreneur 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. True leaders are tenacious, determined, and self-starting. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford. Tenacious: be persistent in your pursuits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

Hire, coach, and train everyone on the team to focus on communication. Company and organizational values must be aligned with employee and customer personal values, or your execution won’t work, no matter what the purpose. Part of employee satisfaction is having a well-understood purpose, but they also have to enjoy the execution.

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