Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

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. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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 classic book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

by Christine Comaford, author of “ SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together “ Most leaders know that command & control is dead and that fear doesn’t motivate employees. From time to time we all say or do things that spark unconscious fears in our employees. Why might a meeting scare your employees?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

The conversion rate is down 30% at launch. Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. When business performance is non-positive, every employee, at every level, will work super-duper hard to look at every dimension of data to find any semblance of good news (no matter how small). Long-term…. : (. Paul Polman. Alan Mulally.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

by Todd Patkin, author of “ Finding Happiness “ What were your last 10 or 15 employee conversations like? And chances are, unless they were delivered in a, shall we say, forceful tone of voice, your employees don’t mind hearing pertinent instructions and questions. Usually, though, that’s not the case.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

It’s grounded in a commitment to the advantages of workforce diversity , which include attracting a wider pool of skilled employees, fostering increased creativity, improving decision-making, enhancing teamwork, and achieving exemplary customer service and community relations — all with improved financial performance. Anita Sanchez, Ph.D.,

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2013

By Bruce Hodes, author of “ Front Line Heroes “ I have run my own business and coached employees for years but the whole notion of calling meetings between employee and manager “progress meetings” is something I learned from Wayne. Many different meetings occur in business between managers and employees.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

In my time, I learned a thing or two about the importance of preventing employee turnover. Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. ” What exactly is a leadership contract? Back to Podcast. Transcript. It’s not for the meek.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

When you begin treating your employees as assets rather than expenses, they'll be able to tap into their real potential; this will give both parties a win-win situation because teams want the opportunity to encourage their growth and boost their performance, which means greater productivity from both those working side-by-side at any given moment.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2020

Her books The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence , and The Genius of Opposites , have been translated into 17 languages. Her latest book is “ Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone’s Talent and Performance “ We speak with Dr. Extroverts like to express their ideas by talking them out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!: No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2011

and if it’s the latter, then good riddance to a weak employee who couldn’t hack it. The entire Bible is filled with positive leadership examples, but when it comes to confronting poor performers, there’s someone, in particular, who stands out: Jesus. But there is a middle ground when it comes to confronting poor performers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

Look inside your business: A catastrophe could be caused by a disgruntled former employee, or a dissatisfied customer who decides to disparage you on the Internet. Unlike catastrophes, ignorance is the fault of the business owner or potentially other managerial employees. But it will apply to both you and your employees.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. Longer Sales Cycles and Micro-Conversions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Thus I believe that business leaders and entrepreneurs need to focus first on people leadership, rather than process leadership. Of course, some balance is required.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Kimberly White, author of “ The Shift: How Seeing People as People Changes Everything “ The research is clear that employee engagement has a powerful positive impact on turnover and productivity. They only give employees one more thing they have to do. But all too often, engagement initiatives don’t work.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Let’s take your standard Enterprise Client Partner, who manages a $3M book of business with 20 Accounts. Meanwhile, we have bigco tech employees complaining about not getting their free food delivered to their apartment in Noe Valley. But remember that these types of conversations should be done live, not over email/slack.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2012

Anyone who has ever tried to lead people will tell you leadership is more like art than science. And as with art, perfecting the craft of leadership requires studying under a master. The blogosphere is full of leaders with either outstanding leadership knowledge or strong writing ability, but far fewer have both. John Maxwell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Thus I believe that business leaders and entrepreneurs need to focus first on people leadership, rather than process leadership. Of course, some balance is required.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2024

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

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. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

More About Jon Picoult: Learn more about Jon’s book, FROM IMPRESSED TO OBSESSED: 12 Principles For Turning Customers And Employees Into Lifelong Fans. He helps companies impress their customers and inspire their employees creating raving fans that drive business growth. 19:52] What role will A.I. So Jon, welcome to the show.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

There are numerous great books out there on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and other topics of interest to MBA students that can be immensely valuable to anyone looking to build their knowledge and prepare for a career in business. This book aims to help you learn this essential skill and boost your problem-solving prowess.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

As a workplace psychologist, I’m often asked what the psychological effects of COVID-19 are on employees. The project explored the upsides of working from home and the elements of the old workplace that employees were missing; which included the psychological effects of Covid-19 on feelings, performance and function.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2020

In “ Conscious Leadership: 7 Principles That Will Change Your Business and Change Your Life “, leadership expert and organizational psychologist Michael Bianco-Splann offers a roadmap to effectively lead others without giving up your principles, aspirations, or happiness. Conscious leadership. The answer?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Employees pay attention to what you do , not what you say. Meanwhile, employees will think they can ignore important change initiatives because management gets to ignore them. Meanwhile, employees will think they can ignore important change initiatives because management gets to ignore them. They’ll leave.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2017

What common habits do nearly all great employees have? Great employees have strong discipline. The best employees have strong discipline. It’s important that employees stay disciplined during the ups and the downs. Great employees welcome criticism. Great employees embrace opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2018

The effective trailblazer in this era of accelerating change must embrace the paradox of giving employees both roots and wings — roots to provide a sense of purpose and grounding in the all-important “why” of the organization, and wings to explore the “what” and the “how.”. The glue that holds the relationship together is trust.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2015

You hold lots of employee meetings to talk about it. If today’s leaders actually focused on building the connectedness they and their employees crave, they would see a many-fold increase in performance and bottom-line results. Employees have to feel safe to share their ideas. It doesn’t seem to matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2020

Your employees have higher expectations of you than just defining their job – they want inspiration, motivation, and purpose. A premier example of the “old-school” command-and-control leadership was Jack Welch in his leadership at GE. According to another great student of leadership, Stephen R.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches. I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me. But the conversation rang very true for me.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

So if you’re hitting the business books, here are three ways to educate yourself for entrepreneurship. Once you recognise games like ‘kick me’ and ‘I’m only trying to help you’, it’s possible to avoid being drawn into them by consciously shifting your ego state or withdrawing from a conversation until a new dynamic is established.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As a leadership coach, going into 2021, I intend to shift how I acquire new clients to support in their leadership journey as an aspiring or first-time leader. It’s a proven methodology, and I am rapidly acquiring the skills I need to ensure I book as many quality events as possible going into next year.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 11, 2022

That market penetration is not far off from the prevalence of very good leadership and management in business. I hear stories all the time from executives about absolutely terrible leadership practices. I also hear plenty of stories that aren’t awful, but are evidence of non-leadership or non-management. Send an email.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

Which means that most of the people who actually do have the most interesting and useful experience to add to the public conversation aren’t doing so. Well, they’d know it if you wrote a book, of course! I’m not saying you have to write an actual book. Whether it actually winds up in book form ever is up to you.

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