Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

With today’s rapidly changing environment, I see many business leaders reverting to the “ command and control ” leadership model, in an effort to be more responsive, rather than leading with their heads and heart. I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

Most of the entrepreneurs and business owners I work with recognize that they must occupy and practice a primary leadership position , but many will admit that they are not thriving in this role. Accept the fact that authenticity is necessary for leadership effectiveness. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind. Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Agile can also be applied across numerous other industries as an effective project management approach.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Developing successful agile innovation methods can drive companies to great new heights. Then implementing agile innovation methods should be top on your list of to-dos. Taking an agile approach to project management means taking large tasks and splitting them into smaller tasks, as well as finding ways to be more innovative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key principles of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Every successful startup I know has pivoted a couple of times, as they learn what really works in the marketplace and in the sales process. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. In fact, crises can and do hit in any phase, due to poor execution, complacency from success, less competitive strategy, change of leadership, and many other reasons.

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process helps ensure that you can deliver solutions that scale without breaking other parts of the organization. Process Versus Product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

In it Shackleton defined courage and leadership. GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. In 1912 Ernest Shackleton placed this ad to recruit a crew for the ship Endurance and his expedition to the South Pole. Corporate elephants can dance. So why this post?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Leadership Development. Leadership skills are abundant in startups since everyone has to pitch in in order for a project to succeed. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. Agilent, of course, was once Hewlett-Packard’s Test & Measurement, Chemical, Components and Medical organizations. to do that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Building agility and timeliness are critical components of modern leadership, due to the pace and complexity of change today. Then your work becomes a win-win result, rather than win-lose. That means double the value and credit for all efforts. Show perseverance and adaptability to the mission.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Every successful startup I know has pivoted a couple of times, as they learn what really works in the marketplace and in the sales process. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. Follow Weekly Leader to find the latest in leadership news and best practices for improvement. The Agile Executive. Managing Leadership. Extreme Leadership. Time Leadership. Welcome to Trendy Management.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Where will Chile establish technical and innovative leadership? See below.).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Prior Leader Moves On.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. Throughout, Ryan’s leadership of EFCO was unbounded and today over 50 companies are members of EFCO. Ryan started Rally (formerly F4) out of our previous office and could regularly be found scribbling all over a white board.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

Agile methodology. Agile is open to changing requests over time and encourages continuous feedback from the end users. Agile is open to changing requests over time and encourages continuous feedback from the end users. In this methodology, leadership inspires teamwork, face-to-face communication , and accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Every successful startup I know has pivoted a couple of times, as they learn what really works in the marketplace and in the sales process. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. In fact, crises can and do hit an any phase, due to poor execution, complacency from success, less competitive strategy, change of leadership, and many other reasons.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites. However, quickly determine other sectors worthy of interest and try to hire leadership and tech talent experienced in those areas. Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. In fact, crises can and do hit an any phase, due to poor execution, complacency from success, less competitive strategy, change of leadership, and many other reasons.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “. The concrete jungle simply doesn’t yield to the roar of the lion (in other words, a command-and-control leadership model) anymore. Fortunately, all things in the jungle gravitate toward leadership. by Micheal J.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. — Fast forward a year, and slowly, like turning a supertanker, the innovation pipeline we proposed is taking shape. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. It flows down from the clear measurable goals, an empowered data organization, and a close and direct partnership with different leadership levels (VPs, Directors, Sr. I had an opportunity to spend time with him and his leadership team. Long-term…. : (. Paul Polman. A Plan for Action.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. People in small teams trust each other.

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