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. You must give them a strong sense of self-efficacy by championing autonomy, encouraging them to think big, and coaching them on areas to improve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Every one of you business leaders I know struggles with the competing demands of finding and keeping employees motivated and satisfied, versus building and enforcing a set of repeatable processes that work. Obviously, both are required for a company to stay healthy and growing. Dysfunctional teams will cause even the best processes to fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Of course, some balance is required. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. Mentoring and coaching tend to improve commitment, motivation, decision making, and creative talents, which are required for a competitive business and career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Of course, everyone thinks they know what it takes to make a great leader, and many books have been written about the subject. In this context, I was impressed with the new book, “ The Intelligent Leader ,” by John Mattone, widely regarded as the world’s number one executive coach and authority. As a mindset, it’s a way of life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Of course, some balance is required. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. Mentoring and coaching tend to improve commitment, motivation, decision making, and creative talents, which are required for a competitive business and career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

By demand, entrepreneurs are crisis managers, and can be busy reacting 24 hours a day to urgent short-term issues. Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. You must be the model of the culture you want. Manage your company based on long-term priorities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. Of course that’s true. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. However sometimes what we ignore is there’s a lot that goes into testing your product, the demand, etc. Useable of course, but it doesn’t have to be perfect.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). I opened up with a very blunt conversation about self confidence, self doubt, family pressure, peer pressure and the demands on a CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever. Of course, that assumes that you nurture a culture that rewards integrity. Mentoring and coaching are also important. In addition to good customer service, they are now expecting a total memorable experience , from quality, to shopping, and delivery.

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