Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2016

Some will argue that people leadership is a skill you have to be born with, but I’m convinced that it can be learned from experience, mentoring, and failures. Entrepreneurs who become business leaders study the successes of peers, and seek to emulate them. Leadership requires focus and effort, and doesn’t happen by title.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Steve goes on to note that Chuck Eesley , one of his Stanford compatriots, has performed quantitative studies of the VC industry, finding that firms which have operationally experienced partners tend to generate superior financial results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. Other studies have shown a return of up to 400 percent for this approach. Environmental safety. Intellectual stimulation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2012

Michael Useem of Wharton, in his book, “ The Leader’s Checklist ,” outlines 15 mission-critical leadership principles, and also includes six avenues of learning for new entrepreneurs to activate their leadership skills: Study leadership moments. Solicit coaching and mentoring. Experience the leadership moments of others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. I still find many organizations that think of internal change in terms of months and years, or even worse, suffer from “analysis paralysis,” or studying a problem forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2011

Michael Useem of Wharton, in his new book, “ The Leader’s Checklist ,” outlines 15 mission-critical leadership principles, and also includes six avenues of learning for new entrepreneurs to activate their leadership skills: Study leadership moments. Solicit coaching and mentoring. Experience the leadership moments of others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. Also, every study I have seen shows that the right rewards are the key to a motivated and engaged team. The impact is low employee engagement , low productivity, and ultimately business failure or lack of growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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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 21, 2022

Studies show that public peer recognition programs are often more effective than big bonuses or cash rewards. The most effective leaders create a culture that regularly recognizes the value of individual day-to-day efforts, and celebrates major milestones, such as the achievement of quarterly or annual results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In fact, you may have noticed in a recent study , that the business CEO turnover rate last year was the highest in 10 years, and may go even higher this year. That means a priority on coaching and mentoring, as well as training and tools, before focusing on results metrics. Work on being a facilitator rather than a driver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Many of you business professionals I meet in my business consulting and mentoring roles seem very determined to advance their career, or even start their own business. We all need help in achieving our objectives, whether it be mentoring, education, or resources. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. It’s important to learn from peers, advisors and mentors that the required mindset must be combined with specific actions, including the ones outlined above, before value can be harvested.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. They'll take the risk of chocolate cake over the risk of diabetes in five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

She’ll have to quit her well-paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems. And special.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” I’m super excited about it! I met an inspiring professor who ran the case development named Professional Noam Wasserman.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. ” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” I’m super excited about it! I met an inspiring professor who ran the case development named Professional Noam Wasserman.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. And Coach Campbell. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. billion each, $7.5 Not according to my sources.

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