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6 Sources Of Purpose To Drive Business Success Today

Startup Professionals Musings

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

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5 Steps To A Winning Strategic Plan Execution Process

Startup Professionals Musings

He brings a wealth of experience to the table, based on years of consulting work with middle market companies around the world. I support his summary of five key steps to get beyond the planning: First check your view of the reality of your situation. Validate everything you do from their perspective, as well as yours.

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7 Keys To Business Transformation To Meet Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required.

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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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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I think of VCs as coaches. But successful coaches find a way to get the most out of all the existing players on the field and avoid too much unnecessary trading. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”

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10 Signals That You Can Be A Trusted Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

I saw a good summary of the required principles for long-term trust in a new book, “ The 10 Laws of Trust ,” by Joel Peterson, Chairman of JetBlue, professor at Stanford University, and thought leader in this area: Practice personal integrity in all that you do. Show humility while acting as a mentor and coach.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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I think you'll enjoy hearing him, but if you're in a rush check out the summary notes below. These speakers help coach CEO’s on important executive decisions. Then they consider if it is a big enough market. Howard gives an example of an entrepreneur wildly overstating a market size. What is ideal board structure?

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