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7 Keys To Heightening Your Business Team Engagement

Startup Professionals Musings

I was shocked to read an old Gallup study that indicates only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more recent data shows only a small change in the right direction. If you can do it, motivation can easily be your biggest competitive advantage. Start today. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

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But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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7 Personal Decisions That Delineate Your Best Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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8 Entrepreneurship Principles For Anticipating Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. Technologies are not solutions, but understanding a technology, in the context of a customer need, will result in more competitive and long-lasting solutions.

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8 Management Mistakes Which Will Defeat Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Case and Gerald M. Why does a good fight sometimes go bad?

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7 Thinking Strategies To Make You A Business Winner

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and over 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

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7 Ways To Improve Your Team Member Experience At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

This intent is often negated, according to new studies, by remote workers , especially parents and team members with long commutes, who are more satisfied and productive than onsite employees. You will see greater productivity, and employees will have a better experience and more satisfaction.

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