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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. New blood and new ideas are keys to agility. Make sure your teams are enabled to make timely decisions, as well as accountability for staying competitive in their domain.

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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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Idea management.

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. Freelancers and consultants have to demonstrate results, without training and mentoring, so they can help you more quickly and probably at a lower total cost. In addition, you need the flexibility to pivot quickly as required.

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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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Idea management.

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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Most investors will readily admit that they invest in entrepreneur leadership, more so than innovative ideas, but they often find it difficult to separate aspiring leaders from those that are clearly extraordinary. The most effective leaders marshal existing resources and incent people to create innovative yet competitive solutions.

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6 Keys To Reducing Team Pain From Market Uncertainty

Startup Professionals Musings

Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.

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7 Keys To Creating A Productive Business Team Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

That means they must believe in what you are trying to do, and feel they have the right tools, training, and reward system to do the job that needs to be done. Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required.

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