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10 Leadership Traits To Inspire Every Startup Founder

Startup Professionals Musings

Hoping for good luck and applying pressure is not leadership. Leadership doesn’t come with success, but success does come with leadership. Reward failures as well as successes if the result is a lesson that advances the company. Allocates adequate resources to overcome constraints. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Connection And Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. The importance and the specifics of practical team leadership were re-confirmed to me a while back in the classic book, “ Unlocked ,” by Robert S. Practice leadership by walking around (LBWA).

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7 Startup Leadership Keys To Ramp Up Team Commitment

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. The only real alternative is to find a co-founder who can build and lead the team, while you focus on the product. Murray, who is a recognized expert in the field of business leadership.

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7 Likely Criticisms Every Founder Needs To Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often find founders who have such conviction and passion for their new idea, that they can’t believe anyone could challenge it. I like the specifics on how to do this in the classic book, “ The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough ,” by leadership expert Samuel B.

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8 Team Member Types Test Your Entrepreneur Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members.

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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series. We interviewed Mr. Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. Another example is the City Table Leadership website that is created for the city of Kansas.

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Leadership is More Than a Memo

Steve Blank

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Among other things the book reminded me how important leadership is in setting startup culture – both consciously and implicitly. Here was the day I got that lesson.