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6 Mismatches In The Workplace Lead to People Burnout

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. Burnout occurs for many when your job demands are too many, the hours are too long, and the resources to handle them are too few. Organization acts without fairness and respect.

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7 Reasons A Good Team Merits Priority Over Procedure

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Un-motivated people are also a huge drain on all resources. Only people can look ahead and prepare for the future.

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6 Marketing Specifics That Apply To Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! They will call you back.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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6 Mindsets That Separate the Most Effective Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these same mindsets are equally applicable to the entrepreneurs I mentor, and all of you small business leaders, so I offer you my summary of the authors’ conclusions, paraphrased here, with my own insights: Be bold in vision, strategy, and resource allocation. Get organization alignment through culture and talent.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

socalTECH

We also take advantage of all the information human resources has provided us, and look, we know that someone else you know works at this company, or maybe knows someone who used to work at that company, and can vouch for them. You've got to know best practices in demand generation. You've got to have great sales enablement.

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6 Keys To Marketing That Many Entrepreneurs Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

On the marketing side of the equation, there are so many “marketing gurus” and “marketing resources” out there, the real challenge for most of us is to sort out the basic do’s and the don’ts that apply to startups. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s classic book “ Do It! They will call you back.