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8 Keys To Providing Consulting Services To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers. Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. Be responsive to every customer communication. Adapt a style to meet the new business work models.

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6 Ways To Help Others At Work And Still Save Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Taking on other people’s work won’t increase your job satisfaction or your productivity. Don’t do it.

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7 Ways To Counter The “I’m Too Busy” Syndrome At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to one in productivity between comparable team members. Limit your daily “to-do” list to the top three results due soon.

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8 Steps To A Positive Mindset And Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

His 30 years of business and coaching experience bring credibility to his perspective. Takers can never get satisfaction, and they antagonize those around them. Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time. Only givers build self-esteem.