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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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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.

Berkonomics

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. Second: measure the results of delegation.

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6 Keys To A Winning Business Model For Your Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. The free model, with a loose intent to monetize later, made popular during the tech bubble, doesn’t work anymore.

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8 Keys To Being A First Responder To Market Changes

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, no business wants to be the next Blockbuster , which kept charging straight ahead despite subtle clues that the Internet was changing everything. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints.

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6 Ways To Test Your New Venture Sustainability Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. The free model, with a loose intent to monetize later, made popular during the tech bubble, doesn’t work anymore.

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8 Steps To A Satisfying And Successful Business Exit

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. At minimum, you need to get an exit advisor to keep you on course. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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The five tactical skills of a great executive

Berkonomics

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. Third: support. Fifth: celebrate.