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6 Key Steps To Transform Business Dreams Into Success

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Most people find that the act of committing something to paper forces them to face the reality of getting started and measuring progress.

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5 Keys To Leadership While Working With Remote Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

Start with ‘How are you?’ Trust is hard because it requires giving up control and being honest with ourselves, and with every team member. Leave it up to team members and leaders to decide what schedule works best for them. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others.

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5 Steps To A Winning Strategic Plan Execution Process

Startup Professionals Musings

I support his summary of five key steps to get beyond the planning: First check your view of the reality of your situation. If you start with a distorted or biased view of what your company needs, no execution is likely to achieve the results that win. It’s up to you to align their hearts and minds on winning.

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Developing Leadership Skills: What You Need to Know

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. I found a good summary of the dynamics behind personal business leadership, and how to get there, in a recent book “ Leadership Rigor! ” What gets measured gets done.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Bridge The Knowing-Doing Gap

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. I found a good summary of the dynamics behind personal business leadership, and how to get there, in a new book “ Leadership Rigor! ” What gets measured gets done.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I have to back up and give you more context. I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company.

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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. Define metrics to measure what you want to achieve.

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