14 Common Pitfalls New Entrepreneurs Face And How To Avoid Them
Fake Expertise One of the biggest pitfalls I have observed in entrepreneurship is the ability to get actionable and real advice. To get there, one has to be able to discern real and practical advice...
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Build Your Personal Brand Though it may sound counterintuitive, I recommend my clients build their personal brand to help their business brand. The logic and success behind such an approach are...
View Article14 Ways For Business Leaders To Build Team Cohesion
Create A Necessity From a practical standpoint, it is all about creating a “necessity.” Human behavior is most likely to adapt when changes are a matter of survival. The most effective method I have...
View Article14 Ways To Establish Yourself As A New Leader In Business
Be In A Student Mindset The most viable way to illustrate leadership is to show a student mindset. In a new organization, there are many things that are unknown to a new leader. It is important to...
View Article13 Methods For Maintaining Your Company Culture When Leadership Changes
Maintain A Feedback Loop There is no better way to get ahead of cultural shifts within the organization then maintaining a feedback loop from bottom to top. The impact of departing leaders is likely...
View Article14 Strategies For Ensuring Personal Biases Don’t Affect Your Business...
Isolate Facts From Personal Opinion One time-tested method is to isolate the relevant and specific facts from personal opinion. The most significant hurdle is to consciously put a barrier between...
View ArticleSocial Engineering Attacks: Common Techniques & How to Prevent an Attack
@kshahwork Kamyar Shah is a small business advisor helping companies increase profitability and productivity, offering remote CMO and remote COO services. There are simply too many different ways to...
View Article13 Signs That You Should Walk Away From Your Startup Business
You’re Feeling Regret It is understood that entrepreneurship is inherently risky, and as the old adage goes, “A good business person knows when to fold.” That being said, from experience, feelings of...
View ArticleLacking Experience For Your Dream Job? Address Skill Gaps In The Interview
Treat The Interview Like A Sales Meeting A job interview in its most basic form is a sales meeting. Your job as an applicant is to convince the buyer (that is, the employer) that you are the right...
View Article13 Tips For Overcoming Your Entrepreneurial Anxiety
Keep Coming Back To Your ‘Why’ Being an entrepreneur is not easy and can be very stressful. To keep those burdensome factors from influencing progress, one has to remember the “why.” Why did I start...
View Article15 Ways To Stay Relevant And Find Success As A Salesperson
Be A Trusted Partner In spite of the many changes in technology and business culture, the main ingredient for a successful salesperson hasn’t changed; only the tools have changed. Sales have always...
View ArticleHow to Manage with Servant Leadership
Servant Leaders Develop New Leaders, Not Followers Kamyar Shah, Remote COO, thinks that the primary benefit derived from servant leadership is its ability to nurture fledgling leaders on the team....
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Chief Marketing Officer
Who could forget when IHOP changed its name to IHOb last summer, a move that had people talking and creating memes for weeks afterward? What about when SpaceX took the Tesla Roadster into space? You...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Chief Operating Officer
The chief operating officer is one of the key members of the C-suite in many organizations. In addition to overseeing the operations of the organization, he or she may also be the second-in-command to...
View ArticleTroncast – Forbes Coaches Council member Kamyar Shah talks about growth and...
Forbes Coaches Council member Kamyar Shah talks about growth and scale.
View Article12 Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Personal Brand
Lack Of Consistency In Your Brand Voice One of the main pillars of branding is consistency, both in tone and subject matter. It is also one of the rather common issues that hinder or damage a brand....
View ArticleHow To Decide If An Open Floor Plan Is Right For Your Business
Study The Data And Experiment Much like most decisions in business, the physical layout of an office should not be subjective. It should be based on historical industry data and available case studies...
View Article12 Tips For Managing Coworker Relationships After You’ve Been Promoted
Be A Servant Leader The assumption that the nature of the relationships among coworkers inherently changes after a promotion is an outdated notion. The personal and professional relationships both...
View ArticleAre Incentives A Good Employee Motivator? 15 Coaching Experts Weigh In
Rewarding Human Nature Is Essential Most rational actors have a positive reaction to incentives. Choosing to address a natural need for recognition via any method of reward or incentive is inherently...
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