Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2022

A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. If you make people hound you about a commitment, you have already lost half of your credibility. Nothing builds trust better than anticipating your obligations and delivering on them without being asked. Communicate, communicate, communicate.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

Navigating Failure: The Science of Failing Well in Entrepreneurship written by Tosin Jerugba 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 Amy Edmondson, the Novartis professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

by Ken Blanchard, author of the best selling “ The New One Minute Manager ” and the new “ Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results “ To me, servant leadership is the only way to guarantee great relationships and great results. Answered by Stephen M.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That has mainly meant really figuring out how to be a leader and continuously refining my leadership approach as the company has grown. I don’t profess to have it solved, but I’ve learned a great deal about how to scale my leadership approach that I didn’t know back when we started Greenhouse. This is still very much a journey I’m on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are always hard to find, too busy or unavailable behind closed doors, no leadership or mentoring relationship can work effectively. Your primary responsibility as a startup founder is to provide vision, leadership and communication to all internal and external team members.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

.” This podcast episode with Kai Anderson offers a deep dive into the transformative journey from employees to contributors, defining the people age, navigating the new rhythm of work, evolving leadership styles, and understanding the dynamics of the great resignation. Certainly the hierarchical structure of leadership has to change.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2011

In 2010, IBM released a report titled ‘Capitalizing on complexity, which indicated a survey where 60% or CEO’s listed creativity as the number leadership skill needed over the next 5 years. Leadership. Herding Monkeys – Leadership. Value to its people, value to its customers, and value to its bottom line. And we need them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

At least the first time around, it pays big dividends for an idea person to find a partner with the business skills you haven’t tested yet. Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We have a hybrid approach where we have the S3 bit combined with some other functions, because we wanted to have a reduced leadership structure, so we made it the S2,3,6 and we call them the Chief Operating Officer to drive a different mindset for that position. That’s the leadership team.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a world of perfect rationality. This is why recruitment is a $429 billion industry. Many of the best hires are not actively looking for roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Whether you are looking for partners, investors, or future customers, you need to show a level of professionalism and leadership very early that will draw people to your idea. It can pay big dividends as this stage to get help from an experienced business advisor. Two-minute video highlighting you and your idea.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- The necessities will be driven by execution and leadership. The key drivers of tomorrow's entrepreneurs will be people management and leadership. Plus, you're able to reach a pool of target customers that you might not have been incapable of connecting with without them.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Sure, you might have to put some work into changing the bad leadership habits that might be keeping your employees beaten down and resentful. take about five seconds to say, but they can pay long-lasting dividends for your company. Best of all, these things are free and usually easy to provide. But doing that work is worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2019

Promote a more collaborative leadership style. Great leaders have found that mentoring works both ways, and taking the time connect to each employee, over lunch, or outside of work, will pay big dividends in their engagement. The result is a culture of engagement and performance.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

Offering flexible pricing (if you have the financial runway to do so) or sharing best practices and tips with traditional competitors will pay dividends in the long run. Consider the ways that your business can help alleviate the pain of others, and do everything you can to support your client base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Assign complete units of work, rather than tasks.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

as I only improve by addressing my deficiencies.” —  Robert Reeves , CTO, Daticle Robert Reeves They collaborate with your executive leadership team to identify how technology can be used strategically to accomplish all company goals while mitigating risk. They seek the 80/20 economical solution, present options, and discuss tradeoffs.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Pick one or two things that you want to “invest in” that pay future dividends — skills, people, networks, your own health. Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations. In these few weeks left of 2020, what can you do to manage your own “I’m too old” fears? YOU GOT THIS.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Since my latest venture is to create an information site about the niche community of multisports, Jesse’s enthusiasm for health and knowledge of the endurance sports world would only add dividends to his already vast knowledge of business. I can identify and relate to him and would thrive under his leadership. 7- Daymond John.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

However, with a lot of opportunities and a sense of fulfillment at your disposal, it just might pay dividends in the long run. The financial management, critical thinking, and leadership skills will not only benefit you for this profession alone. Deciding on pursuing law will indeed sound challenging at the start.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Networking can pay dividends when it comes to recruiting, attracting new customers and seeking advice, and lots of events are free. Explore local business groups and associations for networking or professional development opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I have found that my years in a big company have paid huge dividends in this area. I found some help in this regard in a new book, “ Power Your Tribe ,” by Christine Comaford, who has been a business leadership and culture coach for the past 30 years.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Often, major donors frown on using donations to support nonprofit leadership salaries. CEO compensation for nonprofits can take several different forms and it can be a strategic way to attract top leadership talent. It doesn’t usually bode well when they distribute monies to employees as dividends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Going out of your way to help a customer or help a good cause pays big dividends these days. Today in business, authority is a function of visibility, leadership roles in related functions, and what is said about you online by authoritative publications and people you know. Don’t be seen as a business taking without giving back.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

A little personal energy might pay you a dividend, and peons can easily become peers or superiors in the future. If phrased properly in the framework of high energy leadership, that can be smart delegation and not a sign of disinterest. That doesn’t mean your energy overpowers your trust in them and leads to micromanaging.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

The age of rule-with-an-iron-fist, top-down leadership is fading fast. take about five seconds to say, but they can pay long-lasting dividends for your company in terms of morale and motivation. If you start incorporating these phrases into your at-work vocabulary, your employees’ engagement will “blossom” this spring: 1. “I

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Small Business Force

MAY 17, 2016

With leadership, there are results AND growth because of the leader. But many end up in leadership positions, especially entrepreneurs and small business owners as their company grows. They all have influenced our managerial and leadership style. Growth, if reached, is a bonus simply. And neither are the results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07) One of the special obligations of leadership in a crisis like this is both to take the long-term view, but also to recognize we have an obligation to take action now. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34) 34:28) The mortgage industry finally goes digital. (37:22)

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

This will pay dividends: it will help bolster familiarity, further instill trust, as well as reinforce the importance of thinking and functioning as a team to drive results. . Keith Simerson, Ed.D.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Leadership relies on persuasion and persuasion relies on trust. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. As another example, few people realize that the all-important corporate profit-and-loss statement (P&L) contains no cash or real money. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 19, 2020

I’ve been on a parallel path to become more self-aware to deepen my knowledge of Conscious Leadership. This paid dividends to my business and to my conversations with my mother. Understand your own patterns and the patterns of those around you. The Enneagram and the Four Tendencies have also been particularly helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2013

Sometimes these people never rose up the leadership ranks so you can’t find them by looking at the top people on an org chart. As with procurement, having a strong business champion will pay huge dividends when you go up against legal. I used to meet sages by walking the halls and talking to people randomly.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

And so the effort we put into those things, spinning those things up, we know the energy we put into it today will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. Innovation Leadership' When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2021

You’ll need this when you go to make a case to leadership for budget on your next virtual event, so it’s important you build in time for this. Some of it you’ll share with your internal team, but enrolling a partner or two to complement your efforts will pay dividends?—?even your attendees are counting on it.

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