Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The experts define emotional intelligence as a leader's ability to recognize individual and team emotions, to understand their effect, and manage your own to guide your next move. It may help to review the evidence that emotionally strong leaders have a consistent advantage in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. With the mentoring approach, the mentee asks for your support in their decision, or asks for your insight on the considerations for them making a future decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

In my role as a business mentor and advisor, I now always look for a culture and recommend team roles that nurture collaboration rather than contention, communities rather than silos , and transparent communication at all levels. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

In the spirit of helping you avoid some of our own learning experiences with startups, I will paraphrase here the nine key stages that he and I both see most businesses going through in their evolution from a startup to a successful and stable entity: You can’t sustain a business without positive cash flow. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. With the five-minute mentoring approach, the mentee asks for your support in their decision, or asks for your insight on the considerations for them making a future decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. That is what separates us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Help make the difference makers even more effective. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

She noted that a key to successfully moving out of the, "I am aware I suck" stage is to develop coping mechanisms that help you quickly "unslump.". Experiencing the feelings of a neophyte will make you more sympathetic the next time you coach someone at a task in which you excel. Avoid The Self-guided Tour.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Clayton Lewis: What Arivale does, is we help our participants optimize their wellness. The second thing, which is different from other companies, is we have translated that into bite-sized recommendations, and we give you a coach. It's not just about wellness in the short term, but it's about wellness for decades.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. He helped set up senior meetings for me based on his personal relationships with people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But the people whom I consider best in this industry are quite helpful indeed. And Coach Campbell. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. But I seriously only know one.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

But Spurs coach, Gregg Popovich used his many years of experience to deliberate a plan that was well executed and surprised even the experts in the game, leading the underdog team to a Game 7 against the defending champions. Heat coach, Eric Spoelstra adapted to what the Spurs were doing because their initial game plan was not working.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I met with a lawyer, talked to an investor and a few mentors, all who are serial entrepreneurs to advise me. I explained that we had people who had already committed to helping execute the vision and that I needed to be involved in these types of decisions he was making. But a wise mentor of mine said, “Go with your gut!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I’m glad I choose to become a lawyer as the skills proved very useful later on and have helped tremendously with the business itself. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. I feel I came full circle in the business light.

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