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How Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Hesitate To Seek Help

Startup Professionals Musings

While starting a new business always involves tackling many new challenges, I’ve personally found myself reluctant to ask for help. I suspect it’s a function of pride and confidence in my own problem solving abilities, but my hesitation has definitely cost me time and money. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

The future of work is definitely changing, accelerated by the current pandemic. It seems they are both looking for more personal satisfaction and sense of purpose for their efforts. You need to overtly reward change efforts, and show a mindset of recognition of the need for more team satisfaction and purpose.

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5 Keys To Satisfaction From Solving Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

A good alternative is to enlist the help of a business mentor you can trust. Perfectionism quashes the desire to ask for help, see others’ viewpoints and empathize, and promote teamwork. For more help on this one, I recommend Esther Crain’s old article “ Five Ways to Blast Perfectionism and Get Your Work Done.”

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7 Strategies To Solve Your Business Problems Faster

Startup Professionals Musings

Each of these will help you in achieving success and satisfaction while tackling your toughest business issues: Stop attacking symptoms – dig first for the root cause. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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5 Entrepreneur Exasperations To Moderate Your Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. By definition, the world of startups today is one of rapidly changing unknowns, where the inputs you receive will often conflict. Marty Zwilling.

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Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools

TechCrunch LA

Insurance and virtual reality are hardly synonymous, but Talespin’s training tools have helped claims assessors do their jobs and helped train a new generation of insurance investigators in what to look for when they’re trying to determine how much their companies are going to pay out.

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8 Initiatives To Form Your Confidence And Self-Esteem

Startup Professionals Musings

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. As you look at your entrepreneur goals, make sure you are following your own definition of success that gives you pride and passion in its pursuit. Fortunately, both can be fixed. All of us shut down when disrespected.

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