Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. These three boxes include managing the present, escaping the traps of the past, and generating breakthrough ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” entrepreneur Charlene Li startup social media leadership business'

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. Can you expand on the idea of “leadership for agility” — are you talking particularly about agile software development, or can this model be applied to other endeavors, other enterprises? They taught leadership, not just scrum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. A good plan is a written one, approved by all key players, which maps out all activities and provides a framework for leaders and team members to follow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. In life I’ve found it useful to have little frameworks to try and interpret the world through.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. These three boxes include managing the present, escaping the traps of the past, and generating breakthrough ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

In businesses, this requires a new internal culture and leadership. Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills. This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2013

Tackling the human aspect of entrepreneurship, leadership and management, the book surmised that each of us are biased towards one of four traits – namely heart, smarts, guts, or luck – in our decision-making processes. and HSGL framework, the authors have developed “True North” questions for reflection.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2014

How do Asian women experience leadership? Developed from Horan’s doctoral dissertation, the book is structured as a “multicultural narrative inquiry” focusing on the leadership experiences of women in Asia. What challenges do they face?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. These three boxes include managing the present, escaping the traps of the past, and generating breakthrough ideas.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By adopting simplicity as part of your leadership framework, you can improve practice performance without adding more complexity to your employees lives. Overcomplicating things is a natural tendency for many business leaders. Executives and founders are usually intelligent, ambitious people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. A good plan is a written one, approved by all key players, which maps out all activities and provides a framework for leaders and team members to follow.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Mik Kersten’s new book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework [IT Revolution Press, November 2018], based on two decades of research, spanning almost every domain of software delivery. In my upcoming book, Project to Product I introduced the concept of the Flow Framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. A good plan is a written one, approved by all key players, which maps out all activities and provides a framework for leaders and team members to follow.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Soon, your digital analytics strategic framework that you hoped would provide a true north to the analytics strategy question looks like this …. The frameworks above cover just one dimension of the assessment (!). It is important to stress that none of these frameworks/answers exist in a vacuum. What’s your quadrant?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

Such is leadership. You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. And I learned the skills in my days as a consultant.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Reply Andrew , on November 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm Said: Great post Steve — this puts a great framework around what I’ve been thinking through with my current startup. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Crafting Your Leadership Story: Lessons Around the Campfire 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 Tony Martignetti, a leadership advisor, coach, bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

So, you’ve joined a Homeowners Association (HOA) and found yourself in a leadership role. By largely automating and storing important documents within a software framework, you can retrieve/reference them quickly. Perhaps you volunteered to join the board. Managing an HOA is a pretty complex task.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 11, 2018

They have been the leaders for the company since the start and now need to build a leadership team around them. While it is now pretty common for young founders to work with coaches, leadership development has typically been limited to executives. This means transitioning from maker to manager. Focus on company culture and vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

And if we’re reflective, it’s also one of the most important success criteria for investors, senior executives, tech writers and virtually anybody involved in business leadership. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

Begin with leadership. Develop a framework for social responsibility. To make doing good the norm, a business’s leadership must give its workforce a framework for participating in social and environmental initiatives and should consistently celebrate its employees’ achievements.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The governance board and CEO should develop a strong AI framework that outlines the AI strategy and includes guidelines for usage. The framework can help minimize risk and prevent harm or other unforeseen consequences to the organization. This should include strategy as well as the policies.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Maintaining stability and building a harmonious society has been central to China’s Scientific Perspective on Development, a framework for sustainable development conceived by former Chinese President Hu Jintao. Given that the book was published in 2010, more recent data could have been provided, including changes to provincial leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” But as your company grows and you bring in professional sales leadership you can no longer do this. It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Recent surveys of global business leaders show that they overwhelmingly agree, but less than a third believe their organizations’ culture and leadership are ready today, They and I are always on the lookout for ways to prepare current and future leaders. In businesses, this requires a new internal culture and leadership.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. The scrum master holds together the scrum framework and also facilitates the process of organization for the product owner and scrum team. Leadership skills. What is Scrum?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. For example, FedEx — a giant, incredibly complex company — has streamlined its core leadership team to CEO Fred Smith and 10 direct reports. Not convinced that small groups can handle your organization’s toughest challenges?

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A solid governance framework built around three pillars — data, IT and privacy and security — proves paramount with the use of AI in education. Start with an AI framework. “If If your board/leadership does not have an AI framework in place, they should. This should include strategy as well as policies.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. In most cases, an organization’s leadership sets the company’s revenue, market share, and goals. A common framework for defining your growth model is Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics for startups : the AARRR framework.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

Consequently, I’m excited about a new book called LEVERS – The Framework For Building Repeatability into Your Business, a collaboration between Amos Schwartzfarb , Trevor Boehm , Cody Simms , and Troy Henikoff. The book is a play-by-play series of frameworks that any company can use to become data and metrics-driven.

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