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Team Member Competency Is Critical To Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study.

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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM.

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Don’t Let the Peter Principle Kill Your Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study.

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Many Entrepreneurs Suffer From the Peter Principle

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study.

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How to Avoid the ‘Peter Principle’ in Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study.

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

Tech Zulu Event

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team. 2) Plan and Execute.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers.

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