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Leadership: Sell the dream while making the reality.

Berkonomics

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all your stakeholders. More often, you (the leader) set the goal and push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline.

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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Cost of customer acquisition.

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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Managing business growth is more than metrics. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin.

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Leadership: Sell the dream; Make the reality.

Berkonomics

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline.

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Please learn this: “Noses in; fingers out!”

Berkonomics

I first heard this expression in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. The CEO spoke, shared metrics, spoke of issues to be addressed during the coming week, and did a fine job of pointing the assembled troops in the right direction. I could not have been more pleased.

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Lighting the match – going viral

Berkonomics

And of course sometimes that requires a large amount, far beyond the capability of small companies looking for its initial audience. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Fourth: measurement.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

And of course, that could easily require a large amount, far beyond the capability of a small company looking for its initial audience. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Third: cost. And yet, word of mouth sometimes is all that is needed.

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