Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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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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Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals.

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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. All partners have compatible work styles. Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done.

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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

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

MAY 23, 2022

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. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. This commitment to hire people who think like entrepreneurs, or instill an “owner’s mindset” in every employee, should be a high priority in every business.

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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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Management Leadership Demand Founder 291

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In the past, working remotely was considered “normal” for entrepreneurs or independent contractors in the gig economy only, but organizations wanted employees, and consultants, to be onsite and working in the office. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility. This greatly narrowed the talent pool. It’s a win-win.

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Technical Review Cofounder Leadership Employee 275

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2024

Kelly Campbell specializes in guiding leaders to integrate trauma awareness into their leadership styles, fostering supportive and effective team environments. We discuss the critical role of trauma-informed leadership in creating a supportive and innovative work environment. But a “supportive environment,” for sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

In reality, the best business process innovations usually come from regular employees on the front line of your business, just trying to do a better job and better serve customers. Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. It’s impossible to innovate in a staid complacent culture.

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Technical Review Leadership Operations Networking 431

Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But there comes a time when bringing on executive leadership is the reasonable and right next step. Think of it as an investment in your company — you’re dedicating resources (compensation) to highly skilled employees who will hopefully bring your business to the next level. What does the C-suite look like?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Studies have found that employee turnover results in businesses losing over $1 trillion annually. This staggering number can affect your company’s bottom line, but by providing the right incentives, you can decrease the cost of poor employee retention. Human nature is to improve and feel valued.

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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. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Geographic expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Analytics Hiring Open Source Employee 303

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

People who have been followers too long as an employee don’t realize how hard it is to be a leader. Hoping for good luck and applying pressure is not leadership. Leadership doesn’t come with success, but success does come with leadership. Allocates adequate resources to overcome constraints. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And if a business is planning significant changes in its operations in the New Year, the leadership team’s empathy for the workforce is vital in the process. Leaders need to be empathetic to help their employees manage stress and stay productive, especially in these unprecedented times.

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Vesting Software Review Leadership Employee 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2023

I’m sure you feel this change, and if you are, or want to be, in a leadership role, you need to focus on how to be more human and lead humans. You really hearing employees also augments engagement levels and business results. Your employees judge you by body language and cues, like repeating the message back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

Some are doing this at the expense of employee experience , which I believe is one of the major causes of employee dissatisfaction and exit of good employees today. To achieve real growth, business leaders need to improve both employee as well as customer experiences. Responsive – empower employees to help peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. Employees don’t like to be micro-managed. A recent Gallup survey reported that 81 percent of employees would prefer to manage themselves, if their company created the right culture for it.

Leadership 431

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not leadership. The military has three of the four pieces of the puzzle you need: strategy, access to technology, leadership. When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. Leadership was not the problem. Strategy, technology, leadership – those were fine. It’s not technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To be successful, and leave a positive legacy, you need a team of motivated employees and loyal customers. Define the leadership attitudes and activities required to effectively detect and analyze failures, then establish a system for extracting learning and propagating it to all your employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

Every one of you business owners I know has worked hard to build your brand, and recognizes the critical value of instant brand recognition and leadership. Recognize that employee morale impacts your brand. If employee morale is down, your brand will be negatively impacted. There are many comparable examples of big hits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2023

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. Leadership is fluid and bend-able. These would never happen. Integrity and character matter a lot.

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Leadership Employee Curation Community 282

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. More money would solve all your startup problems.

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Bandwidth Software Review Salary Angel Investor 246

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2021

Cohen in his classic book, “ Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions ,” as leaders advance, they tend to oblige by asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Cohen provides specific insights to seek in particular situations, while also explaining how to create a culture of question-based leadership.

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Leadership Lean Employee Management 435

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

By being proactive, and empowering and rewarding your frontline employees for improving processes, you will enhance your business productivity and growth in both the short term as well as the long term. Make process improvement a constant focus. Don’t wait for a short-term crisis, or a long-term one, to force process improvements.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Merger Social Media 312

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench. However, quickly determine other sectors worthy of interest and try to hire leadership and tech talent experienced in those areas. Once a digital agency’s operations begin to mature, leadership needs a strategic tack to properly manage its growth.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Buddy punching, an issue in workplaces, involves employees clocking in for one another. This term refers to a practice where an employee clocks in or out for another employee. There’s also the aspect of fairness and morale, where employees adhering to rules may feel demotivated seeing others bend them without consequence.

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Technical Review Employee Leadership Technology 148

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

According to a survey conducted by DELL Technologies, 82% of surveyed managers expect integrated teams to consist of employees, machines, and systems in the next few years. There are countless VA services out there that offer outsourcing opportunities for almost any type of work and sometimes at a fraction of the cost of an employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. You are going to need a lot of skills you don’t have right now. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. Leadership is fluid and bend-able. These would never happen. Integrity and character matter a lot.

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Leadership Curation Community Hiring 373

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Successful entrepreneurs today must practice human-centered leadership to compete and win. There are many leadership styles out there that may have worked well in the past, including authoritarian and paternalistic. Difficulties retaining key employees. Investments and acquisitions fail. Team conflicts become personal fights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. He outlines a three-phase process to develop the necessary business culture of energy, resilience, and openness: Nurture your current leadership strengths. Is your personal leadership shining well or less well in this direction?

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