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6 Ways To Build And Capitalize On Personal Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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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. A person without a positive reputation will never be given a high value, no matter what the title or skill level. Manage your whole image, both private and public.

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6 Keys To Maximizing Your Own Leadership Performance

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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6 Strategies To Optimize Self-Leadership For Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “ Mediocre Mike was a card shark. So what does any of this have to do with leadership failure? You wouldn’t need to be a member of Mensa to calculate the cost to his company of Mediocre Mike’s leadership failure. He lived for the weekends.

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10 Keys For Responding To A Reputation Crisis Online

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as an advisor to small businesses, I still find that many of you still claim to have a negligible online presence , and don’t feel it necessary to monitor your reputation there. Today your reputation online is more important than your price, service, or location. Consider bringing in reputation experts to help.

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10 Lessons To Be Learned By Winning Teams Everywhere

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. Under the stresses of a startup, visible leadership cues can make the difference between success and failure.