Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The bridge from talking to knowing to doing is all about leadership, confidence, and initiative. I found a good summary of the dynamics behind personal business leadership, and how to get there, in a recent book “ Leadership Rigor! ” by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Boards and organizational leaders who are serious about meeting DE&I goals also establish metrics and measurement processes to ensure that successes and challenges are tracked and reported. In other words, DE&I policies and practices must include metrics to gauge the success of those goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During my time in Silicon Valley, I was struck by the fact that most successful entrepreneurs seemed to personally know and regularly hear from all the “movers and shakers” who had the investment capital and leadership they needed. Using metrics to measure results and commitments. Ability to relate aspirations to customer needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

The days of leadership without engagement are gone. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

I recommend outsourcing for flexibility in existing operations, but you need to take the leadership role in preparing your company for the future. Don’t fail to develop the proper comprehensive metrics for assessing how you and any partners are doing in terms of value creation. Not having a means to measure holistic impact.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

This research data negated the traditional view that women’s leadership strength lies in the nurturing aspect of managing people such as building relationships and nurturing others. In fact, the data shows that females edge slightly over males in 14 of the 16 competencies that were measured in all leadership positions.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). I had an opportunity to spend time with him and his leadership team. Long-term…. : (. Don't take your position for granted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Titles for this role in a startup are not fixed, but usually show up as president, COO, or chief architect. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer. Most team members already know negative consequences, but rarely envision positive ones. It’s up to you to keep all potential consequences in perspective, and don’t apply them as a lever to improve performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. I have added my own observations to theirs as follows: People decision making by gut, more than data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Highlight your personal leadership values and experience. Clients need to feel comfortable that you expect quality work from your team and technology, and have metrics, modern tools, and controls in place to make it happen. What are your academic credentials, firms serviced, and industry accolades and participation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Titles for this role in a startup are not fixed, but usually show up as president, COO, or chief architect. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Another leadership development bit? Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. But we all should be aware of the three levels of leadership that each of us experience as we create, grow and nurture our various enterprises, no matter what their size. The conundrum of competing needs.

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues. An organization with a social justice mission only has white men in leadership positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. The world may not be ready for your great solution just yet, but leadership can carry you for the duration. Business leadership in today’s environment is all about relationships.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Metrics are used to manage process rather than creation of new capabilities, outcomes and speed to deployment. This typically plays out in three ways: Often the first plan from leadership for innovation is hiring management consultants who bring out their 20th-century playbook. The consultants reorganize the company (surprise!),

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2022

This simply means making it standard practice in your new startup of building a paper trail of contracts (no verbal contracts) between partners and vendors, customer transactions, and internal processes with team performance metrics. Never make people ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

The days of leadership without engagement are gone. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

The environmental component might include resource conservation and biodiversity metrics, while the social portion delves into community engagement and employee relations. By setting goals and openly documenting progress, businesses showcase their corporate responsibility and establish leadership positions in sustainable operations.

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Board Effect

JUNE 20, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Because you already thought about success metrics in the planning stage, you should be ready to measure whether or not it was successful. Tools that will help with this include those that surface sales and ops metrics. Adam is driven by a passion for inclusive leadership and solving problems with technology. .

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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

They show how an organization behaves in terms of sustainability and social conscience, covering environmental impact, diversity and inclusion, and finances, with a focus on leadership. Once information has been identified, staff will be able to use board management software to input and update metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This may include new processes, metrics, incentive systems, or changing organizational structures. Innovation Culture: What are the blockers and enablers of innovation in your company – How much time does your leadership spend on innovation? Culture Change: Transforming the company to establish an innovation culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way. Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. Proactively sets metrics and track goals.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To Effective leadership and governance thrives on diversity of perspectives and diversity of perspectives doesn’t just happen. Leach, Board Chair, Leadership Center of Excellence Ensure every voice is heard and valued. It takes intentionality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

We all have our favorite metric and our passion, but keeping up with real-world changes and trends seems to be always just out of reach. In my experience, all business metrics are still used too often for people management and accountability, rather than business management.

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Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Use Metrics for Effective Resource Allocation Volunteer and staff efficiency is important for organizations working with limited resources or who simply never have enough hands. Data can provide the answers, but mission-driven organization boards need the right tools to cut through the noise and inform better decision-making.

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Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

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Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

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