Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Employee engagement is a measure of emotional commitment, leading to work focus, which translates to productivity, satisfaction and happiness. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects. No one is happy or satisfied. Build engagement through culture and mindset.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This division of labor facilitates a "spike and spread" of your product across a customer''s entire organization. Their PS agents offer their users free, onsite training, in exchange for a warm introduction to other departments within the customer''s organization. PS folks are typically "farmers" rather than "hunters."

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

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Berkonomics

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a way to prevent such behavior and create a tool for organization – and transparency at the same time. Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. Of course, this has never happened to you, and you have never done this in your past.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Some customers and stakeholders don’t just prefer that an organization is socially responsible, but insist on dealing only with these startups. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Take satisfaction in widening your comfort zone, the opportunity to learn, and the progress toward your goals. Use your mentor or support organization to get you over the hurdle, and celebrate the success. Helping others is the best way to forget your own fears and build the satisfaction of leadership as well as learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Make sure you are hiring, training, and promoting the future leaders who possess what it takes to create the organization you want. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. A key step is to push every talent lever in support of your compelling future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Tracking public sentiment over time provides invaluable insight and gives you the chance to stay right on top of changes in the marketplace and your organization’s brand equity. That’s where the money is.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In this highly interactive session, Carrie Kish Partner and CEO for CultureSync,www.culturesync.net, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural change, executive coaching, and strategy, shows qualified CEO and CFOs how to upgrade their organization. The result is unprecedented collaboration and impact. Confirmed RSVP a must.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Administer regular morale and satisfaction surveys. Proactively look for signs that negativity is impacting morale and productivity in your organization, and use the survey and follow-up to credibly identify specific sources and people to counsel. The result is a positive and productive work environment for all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion. All too often, business owners find the financial returns alone do not provide the long-term satisfaction and success they assumed would come with all the hard work and challenges that come with every business, large or small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys. According to Lederman, engaged organizations grew profits as much as three times faster than their competitors. Highly engaged organizations have been shown to reduce staff turnover by 87 percent, improve performance by 20 percent, and increase customer satisfaction by at least 12 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

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).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Every organization must constantly review its hiring practices, training, and leadership to make sure the focus is on people who are motivated, open-minded, and empowered. If a key person in your organization has never changed roles, that person is likely limiting their personal growth, as well as the growth of your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

The requirements of the desired organization need to be formalized before people are hired. My recommendation is to hire core executives, and have them define, justify, and build their organizations. I’m not suggesting executive search firms for every startup position, but national recruiting organizations will get better results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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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Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 106

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 30, 2013

These endeavors have arisen organically, as we have identified our shared interests. Be Sharing - Mentors are often motivated by the satisfaction they derive from vicariously sharing in your success. Good mentors are in demand and they will quickly lose patience if you do not adequately appreciate their time and attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2023

It’s easy to find people in every organization rushing around from one meeting to the next, often working overtime to generate more work for themselves and other people, but rarely taking the action to close an issue or contract. Able to avoid or navigate the politics of the organization. That’s the only way to win in the long run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world. Product pre-order model. Interest on debt model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s easy to find people in every organization rushing around from one meeting to the next, often working overtime to generate more work for themselves and other people, but rarely taking the action to close an issue or contract. Able to avoid or navigate the politics of the organization.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Activity 123

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Leaders are assessed for their ability to fit into the brand community, embody the values required, maintain the right strategic priorities, and deal with the current organization stage. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

In my experience, a level of disagreement among key team members is a sign of a healthy organization, allowing it to survive and prosper in this age of multiple disruptive trends. Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. You must feel satisfaction. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others. Most experts agree that the key to worker productivity, decision making, and satisfaction, is raising their level of engagement from the currently low thirty percent range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Affirming and rewarding team members for key actions creates more momentum, commitment, and satisfaction. A business must be all about listening to customers, delivering value, and customer satisfaction. Execute processes and metrics around customer requirements, loyalty, satisfaction, and service. Investors like happy teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2013

He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Tracking public sentiment over time provides invaluable insight and gives you the chance to stay right on top of changes in the marketplace and your organization’s brand equity. That’s where the money is.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity. Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization. Assess your satisfaction and ability for this type of work. Enablement: provide support and human capital.

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Activity Satisfaction Metrics Startup 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Among many other recommendations, they offer some practical tips on how any organization can make their work culture more meaningful and satisfying: Match people to work that stimulates and challenges them. Focus on role enrichment, not more work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leaders are assessed for their ability to fit into the brand community, embody the values required, maintain the right strategic priorities, and deal with the current organization stage. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Satisfaction 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose. Whole Foods, for example, have continuously demonstrated their commitment to natural and organic foods, and have amassed an large and intensely loyal customer following for their 475 stores.

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