Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Yet in my role as a small business advisor, I still see a singular focus on achieving repeatable processes and “cookie-cutte
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10 Great Ways To Crush Creativity In Your Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2498 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on November 23, 2017 11:48 am
10 Principles For New Ventures To Weather The Storm
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2499 days ago
A perfect storm is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravates an environment drastically. In the entrepreneur world, I feel we are in such a situation now for new startups, with the confluence of business transformations, the explosion of new digital
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 Steps Required From A New Venture Dream To Reality
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2500 days ago
Made Hot by: OpenSourceMedia on November 20, 2017 11:41 am
It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a
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8 Ways That Creating A New Business Helps Your Career
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2502 days ago
Made Hot by: bloggerpalooza on November 18, 2017 12:01 am
If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you should be actively defining and starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Let me explain why this is a win-w
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What Great Bosses And Great Employees Have In Common
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2504 days ago
Made Hot by: OpenSourceMedia on November 16, 2017 2:21 pm
Everyone in business loves to complain about their boss, and a classic Gallup study found that 50 percent of current employees have left at least one job in their career to get away from a bad manager. When asked for clarification, the most common reason seems to be a managers lack of clarity in se
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10 Sharing Principles To Improve Your Business Image
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2505 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on November 15, 2017 8:54 am
Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the
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6 Strategies To Optimize Self-Leadership For Business
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2506 days ago
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. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive
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6 Ways Of Thinking To Put Your Innovation Into Orbit
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2507 days ago
Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e
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7 Keys To Market Growth - Think Global, But Act Local
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2509 days ago
Made Hot by: PMVirtual on November 12, 2017 9:24 am
New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which
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8 Creativity Traits That Will Improve Your Leadership
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2511 days ago
Made Hot by: Digitaladvert on November 8, 2017 8:40 pm
Starting a new venture is all about being creative, not just in the initial solution, but in tackling the daily challenges of every new and innovative business. In my role as business advisor, I find too many people still looking for the right answers in the back of the book. Most of what you learn
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