Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

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. All too often, quitting is a response to a perceived lack of leadership or appreciation by key executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This unexpected burden often results in a dysfunctional startup, as the entrepreneur reverts to micro-management, burnout, or even grandstanding to get some attention or sense of direction and feedback. More focus on improving your personal motivation is also a clear antidote to the burden of leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2021

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

What is needed first is your strong leadership, or even a leadership team, to build a plan, assign the right people, and monitor the steps to resolution. Don’t hesitate to micro-manage initially in a crisis. Micro-management at a later stage only increases stress and slows progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2023

These patterns are potential derailers to success in all leadership and professional relationships: Rely too much on intellectual horsepower only. People who build constructive relationships with co-workers, outside constituents, and management will always be less impacted by politics and more successful in helping you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. Employees don’t like to be micro-managed. Flatten management levels. They favor a “leadership by all” culture. So, how do you build trust? Let team members take control of their work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2021

Cohen in his classic book, “ Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions ,” as leaders advance, they tend to oblige by asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Most people in business seem to expect their leaders just to give orders. According to Gary B. This is precisely the wrong approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In other words, how do you recognize the challenges that really need your leadership , versus the less critical demands that seem to always bubble to the top? Even the busiest leaders find time for management by walking around, and actually listening to their people. You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2022

With the right mindset, defined tools, and invested leadership support, even project managers that face obstacles can be successful. Here are 5 of the biggest project management mistakes and how to avoid them. The post 5 Biggest Mistakes Project Managers Make appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. Leaders of tomorrow need to practice ego management. Leadership is fluid and bend-able.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2020

A real business requires leadership – thought leadership to attract customers and mind share, as well as people leadership around a team, partners, and investors. As pointed out in a classic book by leadership expert Herminia Ibarra, very few people are born knowing how to “ Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. What causes a star to fade?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2021

If your organizational management can include pro bono in its strategy, it will succeed in meeting project deadlines without having to compromise on quality. The post Inclusive Leadership – Together We Can; Together We Should appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2021

Team leadership and management expert Eyal Gutentag shares some tips for properly communicating with your employees. The post 4 Communication Strategies For Managers appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2021

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fortunately, it’s a skill you can start to develop at any stage in your career, which will pay off now, as well as in future leadership roles. Let your engagement be a role model for other members of your team and management. In my consulting work with small businesses and startups, I find that real teamwork is still a rare commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Richard Branson , who manages many companies, even provides feedback by walking around the cabin and talking directly to his key staff during his Virgin flights. As a leader, coaching is most effective way to help people manage ownership of their choices and results. We have all heard the excuse of “not enough time.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2022

When leaders are in fear, be it for their own security, sense of affiliation, or self-esteem fears, they become blind to how they might be using fear in their own leadership. All entrepreneurs have to take risks and provide leadership to succeed, but driving yourself and your team with fear is not the answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2020

This unexpected burden often results in a dysfunctional startup, as the entrepreneur reverts to micro-management, burnout, or even grandstanding to get some attention or sense of direction and feedback. More focus on improving your personal motivation is also a clear antidote to the burden of leadership.

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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. All too often, quitting is a response to a perceived lack of leadership or appreciation by key executives.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2022

Here are five tips on disruptive leadership that can help CEOs manage employees, company leaders and board members when leading a business through disruption. The post The Human Factor In Disruptive Leadership: 5 Tips To Help Your Team In Transition appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2022

Manage up the line and support your team. If key inputs are not under the control of the proper group, then they will cede accountability as well. If your sales group is measured on profitability, but is required to process leads from outside sources paid by volume, you have a conflict where everyone loses.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2020

by Dr. Katrina Burrus , author of “ Managing Brilliant Jerks: How Organizations and Coaches Can Transform Difficult Leaders into Powerful Visionaries “ Toxic workplaces sometimes start at the top. Management needs to keep behavior principles in mind and reference them every day. Offer coaching and support.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2022

The post Does Your Leadership Pass The Crisis Test? Warren Rustand offers some tips to help leaders be a steadying influence while guiding their organizations through a crisis. 3 Tips For Leaders In Tough Times appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A whole host of leadership skills are necessary, but there’s one thing that perhaps defines the great leaders ahead of the good ones. Yes, as you can see from the title, we’re talking about their ability to manage relationships. What Is Relationship Management? How Do You Improve Relationship Management?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 1, 2022

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Transformative leadership is also important. My leadership style is best described as benevolent in that I feel that the best leader is the one who is most supportive of the people below them. Innovations drive my leadership.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

Many people are missing out on the trend by sticking to the free version of the platform, but there is a lot to be gained by springing for a premium membership and establishing your thought leadership using some proven LinkedIn Premium tactics. . Why does thought leadership matter for your industry? Discover Detailed Demographics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building? Greg is part of our executive leadership team and already helps run the firm.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Being a manager isn’t just about managing a team. Many people know what it’s like to have a bad manager. The manager can create tensions in the workplace just by walking into a room. A good manager can create a positive work environment. It’s not always clear how you too can be a good manager.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2020

The future can’t be met with backward-thinking and old leadership methods that are no longer effective. The leader’s duty is to open a door into the future for people and explain how things should be considered and managed in that new reality. What is your leadership style? Bad leaders build barriers for people.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

by Jackie Jenkins-Scott , author of “ The 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership: Drive Change, Manage Transitions, and Help Any Organization Turn Around “ . The leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. What is responsive leadership?

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