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8 Strategies to Boost Your Leadership Impact at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and mentor to many young entrepreneurs, I often get questions about leadership challenges , and what you can do to solidify your leadership position and impact. It seems that today’s worker generation is more demanding, and less willing to accept guidance and direction from anyone with a leadership title.

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7 Keys To Making You A Team Leader And Future Manager

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is that managing and leading a team is a scary venture into the unknown for many people, even if they have worked as a business professional for years. Understand both leadership and management. You don’t have to be a boss to be a leader or a manager.

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7 Leadership Failures To Abolish In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, leadership is best demonstrated while not in a position of authority, and is a skill that must be sharpened every day of your life. Most experts agree that leadership, as perceived by people around you, is more about behavior than it is about specific skills or knowledge. Appear disorganized and manage things haphazardly.

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9 Distinct Leadership Styles You Find In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. That’s intelligent leadership. Marty Zwilling

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10 Tips On Self-Promotion To Solidify Your Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Technical skills are important, but your ability to build and nurture relationships with others is more important for leadership growth and career advancement today. Manage your whole image, both private and public. Constantly focus on improving interpersonal skills. Actively build trust and integrity into every relationship.

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7 Tough Leadership Challenges Gauge Your CEO Ability

Startup Professionals Musings

Provide leadership to drive a transformation. Manage the conflicting demands of leadership. Teams that work together are ones that build trust, and have each other’s back, all while engaging with their leaders, and following a commonly developed strategy.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it. That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. For non-core technical strength, look for outside partners.