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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions. In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. By putting people first — as opposed to process. What’s your main focus?

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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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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

Strategic leadership is a learned skill, and leaders must adopt a strategic approach to run businesses smoothly. Likewise, they demonstrate agility and flexibility at the workplace to leave a good example for employees. . Here we are highlighting the role of strategic leadership in developing business leaders for tomorrow. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

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 elements of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. Martin Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While the trigger may be different, it is likely that businesses and society will experience additional impacts that increase the need for creating agility in the ability to execute while maintaining rigidity in organizational focus. Take the Strategic Leadership Team offsite to do the following. Conduct strategic analysis.

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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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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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 1, 2022

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Transformative leadership is also important. My leadership style is best described as benevolent in that I feel that the best leader is the one who is most supportive of the people below them. Innovations drive my leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

Yet, I’m convinced that connected leadership can be learned proactively, as opposed to waiting for painful negative experiences. Here are my suggestions for focus and actions that will build and maintain your connected leadership with any team: Listen and relate to every team member as a person. Of course, listening alone isn't enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper. Plan to innovate.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The distinction is highly useful as a study of leadership, particularly when examined as part of four Aesopian possibilities that include eagles and ostriches. They can see far in the distance and possess great tactical agility. Eagles are leaders who combine the qualities of the hedgehog and the fox.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper. Plan to innovate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion. Logic and data-driven leadership is the norm. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I agree with some excellent guidance on both fronts from a new book, “ Impact Players ,” by Liz Wiseman, an experienced advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world: Look broadly to do the job that needs to be done. They build a reputation of being a flexible utility player, with the agility to adapt to changing needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I found that view confirmed for a wide range of leadership situations in a classic book, “ The Mindset of Success ,” by Jo Owen. At minimum, you must learn to wear the mask of leadership – cool, calm control. Separate the event from your reaction, and be accountable for your own feelings. Stay positive and believe in yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. The principles of connected leadership are outlined well in a new book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. This requires leadership, teamwork, and trust at all levels. This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

He was able to take his leadership in personal computers in a whole new direction with smartphones, enabling an unprecedented growth opportunity. Enable a positive and highly engaged leadership culture. Don’t let all the data you now have on the past keep you from listening for changes in the market.

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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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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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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. While his groups has changed the mindset and cadence of the organization, the folks he reports up to don’t yet get Agile/Lean learning and outcomes. They just want to see the paperwork.).

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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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. I would describe my leadership style as individualized, and balanced. This is why I take on a leadership style that revolves around goals. I'd describe my leadership style as being consciously inclusive.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a term for this: “Agile leadership.”. There is a theory about agile leadership that has been advanced by a number of business book authors, and this CEO’s method fits within that concept. A group moves in a much more agile manner if it can be directed to focus all of its resources on just a few issues.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. weren’t at all familiar with agile practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Provide both thought and people leadership. First of all, this requires recognition that leadership is primarily inspiration and trust, rather than giving orders. Demonstrate agility and timeliness in all actions. It also requires effective communication, and being a role model for the team, investors, and customers.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2018

However, organizational leadership is a key skill that every entrepreneur needs to manage a successful company that grows over time. If you are interested in leading a company, then consider studying organizational leadership. What Is Organizational Leadership? Understanding the Difference Between Management and Leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. But volatile markets do create unexpected opportunities – if you are alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly. An agile company starts with agile leadership at the top.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion. Logic and data-driven leadership is the norm. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics. Improved adaptability. Putting the product/service on the market early.

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