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Are you still flexible enough to be coached?

Berkonomics

Teaching about the five types of resources In my book, “Extending the Runway” (Second Edition, Berkus Press 2014), I explore the thesis that there are five basic types of resources an entrepreneur must exploit in growing a successful business: time, money, process, relationships and context. Coaches have seen your movie before.

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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.

Berkonomics

It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. But let’s try by limiting this short insight to a list of the five principal tactical skills of a great leader. Compare their leadership style with these five skills. The post Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader. Skill number one: delegate.

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5 Ways To Kickstart Your Business Coaching Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay I’ve always been a bit confused about the difference in a business context between a coach and a mentor. According to many pundits , a mentor shows you the right way based on experience, while a coach brings out the best in you, then let’s you find your own way. Give people the room to debate differences.

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Five ways to make your company stand out.

Berkonomics

The five strategies: Picking one to emphasize. There are five strategic positioning areas for you to consider. There are five niches you can chose when defining your positioning strategy: price, quality, service, innovation, and elegance. So, how do you position yourself to be a stand out? That’s our subject this week.

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5 Tactics To Minimize Meeting Time And Get More Done

Startup Professionals Musings

I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive.

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Let Five-Minute Mentoring Scale Your Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The time limit has more to do with setting an expectation that the meeting is not for solving the problem, but coaching on the parameters and the approach.

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Extending your Runway!

Berkonomics

The five resources boards and investors can add to a company. There are five types of resources a great board or active investor can add to a company. The longer it takes to produce and release a product, the more fixed overhead is consumed, and the runway of remaining cash diminishes. Time as a corporate asset.

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