YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2019

Leadership requires braving uncharted waters and choppy seas. As a leadership coach, I often witness well-developed plans collapse shortly after they’re born. This is because leaders fail to explain why changes matter, identify how employees can contribute, or ask for feedback. A purpose-driven leadership style.

St. Louis 159

St. Louis Leadership Washington Lean 159

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leadership Experience. It should be no surprise that great startup leaders also have some kind of past leadership experience, but this doesn’t have to come from a startup. You can get leadership experience in any context where you’re in charge of other people. There are many different viable leadership philosophies.

Technical Review 156

Technical Review Startup Disintermediation Leadership 156

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

As a result, it is almost impossible for a CEO or an employee to become an expert in every area of business. If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities).

Reputation 127

Reputation Technical Review Global Leadership 127

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. The same goes for recruiting employees. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. You learn this a lot faster by working at other startups first.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Lean Colorado Engineer 132

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Corporate leadership will soon face new challenges with adhering to social distancing policies and the potential for continuing lockdowns, as well as responding to an anxious audience of both employees and customers. Good communication – the right words, the right messages – is nothing if it’s not the truth.

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Leadership Public Relations Community Employee 223

Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

In a recession, some businesses may lay off talented employees. We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses. However, one area that businesses cannot afford to divest from is their own employees. In a recession, advertising costs can go down as fewer companies invest in marketing.

Entrepreneur 123

Entrepreneur North America Employee Retention 123

YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

When it comes to promoting the flow of value to the customer, an excellent methodology is the LEAN approach, in other words, through two guiding tenets: continuous improvement and respect for people. What is the LEAN approach? What is the LEAN approach? As businesses continually evolve, so too does the LEAN approach.

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Lean LLC Employee Leadership 130

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2013

I know that women are a minority in leadership positions in government and business. So, when I found myself sitting at the Harvard Club in Boston listening to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talking about her new book Lean In , I told myself that I know what she is talking about. I know things. What Did I Understand? Not A Damn Thing.

Lean 60

Lean Technical Review Boston Public Relations 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The idea of exploitation versus exploration was central in my own work in building the lean methodology for start-ups. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups. Recognizing the need for ambidexterity and building an ambidextrous organization are tests of corporate leadership. Companies that survive do both.

Incubator 411

Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 411

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Follow Weekly Leader to find the latest in leadership news and best practices for improvement. This blog offers great advice for transforming yourself into a lean and mean manager. Read Jamie Flinchbaugh’s blog about transformational leadership to find out how you can get to your ideal state as a manager. Managing Leadership.

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Management Leadership Agile Lean 178

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. —– What Have We Lost? Yet today at dinner his frustration just spilled out.

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Lean Entrepreneur Business Model Silicon Valley 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities. It is no longer enough to just have a great product or service.

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Lean Leadership Partner Customer 290

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2013

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ The release of “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, the new book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured), has sparked a firestorm of attention from the media and folks around conference room tables throughout the country.

Lean 229

Lean Leadership America Networking 229

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

Recruiting good employees takes effort and a keen eye. You need to be able to recognise what skills a position requires as well as what level of commitment you need from your employees. Once you’ve hired your employees, that’s not your team-building mission complete. The best team. It could save you all kinds of time and money.

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Lean Reputation Employee Hiring 100

Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. No matter the level of comfort or experience with AI, board members, as well as organizational leadership and staff, need training. AI should support and enhance the organization’s goals.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Software Review Technical Review 98

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.

Entrepreneur 138

Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles 138

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. The hard work is building out a team that can deliver on those services, along with leadership that can ensure a smooth operation and a stellar service for clients.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

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.

Employee 147

Employee Management Conversion Operations 147

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. It also propagates back inside your company, via happier and more motivated employees, and far outside as societal advancements. It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box.

Artificial Inteligence 285

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

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. I am looking to reopen offices in a smaller capacity when it is safe to do so and when my employees are comfortable with returning. 9- Focusing on lean operations.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Employee 125

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This unconventional work style, often seen as a liberating shift from the typical 9-to-5 routine, turns more employees into free-spirited individuals exploring the world while staying virtually connected. Young entrepreneurs can leverage technology to reach the top talent pool and like-minded individuals beyond geographical boundaries. #6-

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur AJAX 120

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s one of the largest building blocks in great employee retention. As you can surmise, success in your business leans solely on this starting point, and how effectively you can communicate your message. Employee satisfaction. It’s the foundation for all activity, great and small. Productivity. Management of the team.

Small Business 60

Small Business Leadership Retention Employee 60

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. Sometimes this needs to happen with an employee, sometimes with a partner, sometimes with a certain customer, and sometimes with your overall marketing or business strategy. If you’re in control, they’re in control.”

San Francisco 87

San Francisco Harvest Lean Small Business 87

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. For established companies, a rebranding effort could involve discovering elements like the values your customers live by and what your leadership team believes in. Focus on creating a culture that makes your employees proud to be stewards of your brand.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The only way to undercut their efforts is to exercise strategies of cost leadership or differentiation, which translates to slashing the prices or offering something more innovative. Failing to do either of those two things will virtually guarantee that the venture has no success in the long run.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Revenue Software Review Campaign 87

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. On October 8 at 10a PT, we’ll be talking about bringing Lean Startup methods to established companies, precisely the kinds of businesses that are most resistant to experimentation, even as they desperately need it. That''s hard. That’s Eric Ries’s job.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Agile Leadership 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. This will arm you with the tools needed to get them (or their leadership) to agree on the right problem that needs to be solved first.

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Lean Kansas Government Afghanistan 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities. It is no longer enough to just have a great product or service.

Lean 419

Lean Partner Customer Leadership 419

ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

Does investing in employees marketing skills pay off? Per employee, expenditures ranged from $399 at large companies to $1,886 at smaller organizations, according to the same report from Training magazine. Or is it just a waste? Businesses spent nearly $94 billion on corporate training in 2017—a 33% increase over 2016.

Marketing 106

Marketing Metrics Programming Leadership 106

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. It also propagates back inside your company, via happier and more motivated employees, and far outside as societal advancements. It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box.

Artificial Inteligence 413

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

This is when we look like we’re listening (we might even be leaning in and nodding — things we’re taught to do to demonstrate that we’re listening) but, in our heads, we’re thinking about what we’ll say, or about a story that relates to what the speaker is saying, or about a witty or insightful comment we can make about the issue at hand.

Employee 145

Employee Leadership America Lean 145

OnlyOnce

MARCH 16, 2020

Several years ago, I blogged about the training program we created for entry-level employees at Return Path, including an embedded presentation that we used to use (which I hope still works on the blog after all these years). After all, you’re only a brand new employee once too 1) Listen as much as possible. 3) Be lean.

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Employee Lean Agile Leadership 62

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so.

Non-Compete 113

Non-Compete Vesting Boston Agile 113

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link].

Social Media 97

Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In new, hungry, often lean organizations, leaders are under tremendous pressure to deliver. This is leadership magnified — and it takes up a lot of mental bandwidth and energy. Understand what individual employees like doing. In fact, when managers and employees don’t regularly check in, it can negatively impact mental health.

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Startup Leadership Bandwidth Employee 179