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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. Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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7 Principles For Success As An Owner Or Team Member

Startup Professionals Musings

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. People in larger organizations move away from day-to-day contact with the end customer, and focus becomes company internal and isolated. Optimizing risk, not minimizing it.

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7 Reasons Why Every Business Leader Needs A Mentor

Startup Professionals Musings

Building and running a business is not rocket science, but it does require making practical tradeoffs, building solid relationships, and taking smart risks, all of which a one-on-one mentor can help you with. Mentoring will help you, as well as your mentees, find and build the right relationships for success.

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6 Ways To Build A Business Based On A Higher Purpose

Startup Professionals Musings

Commonly, I find that business owners and entrepreneurs look first at solutions which solve painful problems, or have high profit margins, regardless of their own commitment to a higher purpose, such as saving the environment or helping the underserved. Make sure your plan makes business sense before committing real resources.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

Turn Your Organization Inside Out. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow. But they went one step further.

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5 Strategies To Counter Your Urge To Quit A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, it helps to have a few specific strategies, outlined by Ingunn Aursnes a while back, to help you push through: Reconfirm how you have dealt successfully before with terror barriers. Take satisfaction in widening your comfort zone, the opportunity to learn, and the progress toward your goals.

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10 Sharing Principles Propel Many Current Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

I especially like Cushman’s outline of the ten principles which distinguish the organization and operation of an open business from the more traditional closed model. Your stakeholders all need to understand and agree to the “why” of your organization. Shared clients and objectives (networked organization).