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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. I define business agility for my consulting clients as the ability to change your business rapidly to meet customer and environmental changes, with minimal organizational disruption and cost. Foster a collaboration culture, rather than competition.

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8 Practices Common To The Greatest Leader Role Models

Startup Professionals Musings

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Always searching for new talent sources. Willing and able to hire on the spot.

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8 Qualities That All Super Business Leaders Display

Startup Professionals Musings

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Always searching for new talent sources. Willing and able to hire on the spot.

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7 Guidelines For Entrepreneurs To Do The Right Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

Does it mean the right thing from a customer perspective, societal impact, maximizing business returns or personal benefit? The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Provide leadership to your team for doing the right thing.

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Every Small Business Should Celebrate the Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. They forget that they became entrepreneurs, according to the “ DNA of an Entrepreneur ” study a while back, for just this flexibility. Beat the competition.

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How to Set a Growth Culture in Your Startup Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Jim Stengel, in “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Set your standards very high.

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10 Ways to Build a Business Culture Like Apple

Startup Professionals Musings

Jim Stengel, in his latest book “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Train all the time.

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