Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. She is a former Fortune 50 executive and innovation thought leader who developed her own actionable system to overcome obstacles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. Leadership brand development. No leader can do the job alone, so investors assign great value to leaders who take care of their people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

These challenges, with recommendations for addressing them, were detailed nicely for me in the classic book, “ The Boomerang Principle ,” by Lee Caraher, who has built several companies, and has helped many others manage Millennials, reduce turnover, and improve satisfaction and the return hire rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements. Develop self-awareness of your triggers. Show humility by being honest about mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

The result is lost productivity and a poorly engaged work force. Team members want development plus satisfaction. They want personal and career development. That means you need to pinpoint the right goals for each employee, develop a plan, and commit to taking their careers to the next level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor. Your team will quickly sense your insights and sincerity , leading to greater impact and satisfaction by everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Employees can be much more productive if they fully understand strategic issues and focus correspondingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Employees can be much more productive if they fully understand strategic issues and focus correspondingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In my experience, it means it will likely be necessary to supplement your product business plan with some key personal initiatives that define you as a business leader role model for all to see: Take a visible leadership role in your industry. Build relationships with known business leaders. Be self-starting and tenacious on key challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. Leadership brand development. No leader can do the job alone, so investors assign great value to leaders who take care of their people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

A good way to start is to create and communicate bite-sized milestones toward your end objective, including product development stages, customer threshold targets, and funding achievements. There is increasing evidence that employee happiness and job satisfaction, including yours, does not scale up with your success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Team members seem to be spending more and more time venting to anyone who will listen about the motives and actions of others, and less time introspectively focused on their own productivity and accountability. We all have a human tendency, developed in our childhood, to make up stories which paint us as a victim rather than the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I found some great insights along these lines in the classic book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. Every new idea is only the beginning of a long journey, and the actions you take along the way will determine your ultimate success and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

When team member solutions work well, everyone wins, while top-down decisions provide minimal satisfaction and learning for the team. Use questions to coach and develop team members. The best leaders focus on coaching and mentoring people on decision making, rather than giving orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I found some great insights along these lines in the just released book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. Everyone develops a sense of what activities build their energy, and which ones drain energy from them. Find ideas that energize you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

I found some great insights along these lines in a recent book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. Every new idea is only the beginning of a long journey, and the actions you take along the way will determine your ultimate success and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. Leadership brand development. No leader can do the job alone, so investors assign great value to leaders who take care of their people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2017

As a result, I’m certainly convinced that engaging, retaining, and developing people for maximum performance is one of the toughest jobs you will ever have. Personnel people talk primarily about spending time with and coaching poor performers. Let them go to find a better fit, with real job satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2017

These challenges, with recommendations for addressing them, were detailed nicely for me in a new book, “ The Boomerang Principle ,” by Lee Caraher, who has built several companies, and has helped many others manage Millennials, reduce turnover, and improve satisfaction and the return hire rate. Allowance for today’s work flexibility needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Thus most investors I know claim to invest in the person, rather than the product. His 30 years of business and coaching experience bring credibility to his perspective. Develop an attitude of gratitude and humility. Takers can never get satisfaction, and they antagonize those around them. Only givers build self-esteem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Employees can be much more productive if they fully understand strategic issues and focus correspondingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

For instance, a product that enhances productivity can be sold as a revenue generator in an “up” market and as a cost saver in a “down” market. However, when survival becomes an immediate goal, products that help companies weather near-term economic storms become especially attractive. John Wooden, US basketball coach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a result, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row and has grown accordingly. Studies show that a positive team culture in an organization can result in 26 percent fewer mistakes, 22 percent higher productivity, 41 percent lower absenteeism, and 30 percent stronger customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I too often see people who are quick to make excuses, blame failures on peers or customers, or see management as the reason for their lack of productivity. In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Business is more about people than product. As an angel investor in startups, I often find myself looking harder at the quality of the team and the leadership, than at the details of the product and business model. For your own business, the right time to address expected norms is during coaching and before hiring.

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