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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. Make sure you are fostering people development to their full potential, for them and for your business. Foster a collaboration culture, rather than competition.

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10 Keys To Real Innovation In Your Next New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Where’s your team playbook? Hmm?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Does your team know your playbook?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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5 Ways To Optimize Team Satisfaction In The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience advising businesses, large and small, I have often been surprised by the level of complacency and general malaise I find in the ranks, with a resultant direct loss of productivity and competitiveness. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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5 Steps To An Innovative And Winning New Venture Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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