Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In other words, how do you recognize the challenges that really need your leadership , versus the less critical demands that seem to always bubble to the top? Be sure to take the time yourself to keep up with leadership trends and needs. Meetings with your team seem to be non-productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

As a business consultant and mentor to many young entrepreneurs, I often get questions about leadership challenges , and what you can do to solidify your leadership position and impact. It seems that today’s worker generation is more demanding, and less willing to accept guidance and direction from anyone with a leadership title.

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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. You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

Transform Your Leadership: The Power of Thoughtfully Fit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Darcy Luoma, an expert on leadership and personal development. Darcy Luoma (04:19): It really did.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fortunately, it’s a skill you can start to develop at any stage in your career, which will pay off now, as well as in future leadership roles. In my consulting work with small businesses and startups, I find that real teamwork is still a rare commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. They are excellent mentors and coaches, but have a strong need to be admired and respected in return.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s important in this evaluation process that employees should have an opportunity to evaluate their manager’s leadership in annual or semi-annual reviews. Otherwise, the company’s values and leadership principles are just talk, and it risks creating cynics throughout the organization. Offer coaching and support.

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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

APRIL 17, 2022

Good partners are people who are confident in their own abilities, and willing and able to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and able to provide leadership, rather than require leadership. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. All partners have compatible work styles.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

I found some good insights and details on this approach in the classic book, “ How To Be A Great Boss ,” by Gino Wickman and René Boer, who speak from years of experience working with leadership teams of both small and large companies. Understand both leadership and management. Train yourself to follow leadership best practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

Provide effective leadership. Remember that leadership is both upward, as well as downward to direct reports and employees. A good CEO provides leadership to the Board of Directors, company investors, and stockholders. In it, he says "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. I saw a good summary of these in the classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. The reality is different.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. These are classic inflection points for a development team. But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. He realized that traditional Waterfall development wasn’t appropriate when the problem and solution had many unknowns.a. This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2025

Solving the Marketing Leadership Gap for Small Business (Marketing Leadership as a Service) written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Small business marketing can feel like an endless checklist: create content , run Google Ads, post on social media, and optimize for SEO. They fail because they lack marketing leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2023

I found some good insights and details on this approach in the classic book, “ How To Be A Great Boss ,” by Gino Wickman and René Boer, who speak from years of experience working with leadership teams of both small and large companies. Understand both leadership and management. Train yourself to follow leadership best practices.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2020

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ Happy employees are the best kind. In my book “ Heartfelt Leadership ” I laid out the path to heartfelt leadership. “You can’t do blanket leadership. Take the 1,100 employees I have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. If you are always hard to find, too busy or unavailable behind closed doors, no leadership or mentoring relationship can work effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

They don’t realize that it takes more to succeed in business or a career – it takes leadership skills to get people to follow you, including peers, a team, business partners, and customers. Luckily, you can learn needed leadership skills. Celebrate small successes in your leadership efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Based on many years of experience in business as an executive and consultant, I have long been convinced that emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) in leadership wins over logical intelligence (IQ) every time. It is especially important for you to recognize your life’s purpose , and understand how it is driving your leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. At first, funding seemed like a nonissue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

Beginning with the Metronome effect, In our conversation, Shannon Susko defines the Metronomics framework and explains how it can revolutionize the way CEOs and leadership teams approach growth, strategy, and execution. 05:06] How did you develop the term ‘Metronomics’? [08:01] Book your call today, DTM World slash scale. (01:03):

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Board Effect

MARCH 3, 2025

Team members need initial and ongoing training and other forms of development to succeed on and off the field. We asked experts in the fields of nonprofit, education and civic governance to share their thoughts on board development. This type of development protects board members and the institution in times of crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Providing business leadership is a challenge under the best of circumstances, but it is especially difficult in times of market and customer crises. By being proactive in response rather than defensive, your leadership is confirmed rather than questioned. Every case is a new one where prior experience won’t help you.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

As businesses increasingly seek scalable marketing leadership, the demand for fractional CMOs has surged. Key Takeaways: Strategic Thinking: A fractional CMO must lead with strategy, developing comprehensive marketing plans aligned with business objectives. But not so much the supply. Actually, we’re pretty sure it’s not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2021

Develop a mindset of self-worth and ability to adapt. A positive mindset of being able to add value is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and is seen by others as leadership, rather than giving orders. A better alternative is to acknowledge your shortcomings, and use these to incent new skills and new behavior.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2020

This is leadership like we have never seen before. Uncertain times need new kinds of leadership. Being experimental in your leadership approach will help you try things, learn from them, and figure out your next experiment. Your insistence on them delivering work is part of the work of leadership right now. Collect data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. If you are always hard to find, too busy or unavailable behind closed doors, no leadership or mentoring relationship can work effectively.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. There are many different types of startup studios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure. More money is hard to find, and building efficient multiple processes is even harder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

Hoping for good luck and applying pressure is not leadership. As a role model, you must continuously upgrade your own skills, be alert for new developments and hone your listening ability. Leadership doesn’t come with success, but success does come with leadership. Allocates adequate resources to overcome constraints.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership. Ensure your firm’s fitness to act on new opportunities, and develop an evolving sense of where the future lies. They know they need to act proactively, but still are often blindsided by a new competitor coming out of the blue with a future they never imagined.

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