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Turning Ideas Into Action - Advance Your Career or Launch a Company
The document outlines a step-by-step approach for career advancement and starting a company, emphasizing the importance of self-assessment, effective networking, and building social capital. Key ingredients for success include kindness, strong reputation, and resilience, while also noting the necessity of planning and continuous innovation. It stresses the significance of maintaining a balance between professional aspirations and personal well-being.
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Turning Ideas Into Action - Advance Your Career or Launch a Company
- 1. ACTION @LeslieBradshaw ||#InspirationIntoAction ||@madebymany turning inspiration into (i.e., your professional “StepTwo”)
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- 6. STEPTHREE: and/or career advancement starting yourown company (with a commensurate financial upside)
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- 8. take stock what haveyou accomplished? how effective are you? do people genuinely enjoy working with you? do you have advocates at the senior level? do you have the skills, network & social capital needed?
- 9. stock up do greatwork, drive great outcomes work smart be a genuine joy to work with seek advocates and be an advocate skill up and give more than you take
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- 11. kindness strong reputation effective collaborator talent network domain expertise reciprocal advisorynetwork - role models - sponsors - mentors discernment vision internally networked excellence externally networked consistency social capital timing respect opportunity dependability follow-through great attitude decisiveness
- 12. detailed further still: breakingdown the recipe
- 13. excellence consistency dependability follow-through your workproduct work ethicsocial capital
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- 15. talent network reciprocal advisory network -role models - sponsors - mentors internally networked externally networked your squad Rolodex
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- 18. Starting Your OwnCompany’s “Step Two”
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- 21. honest feedback EMPATHY unique solution to amission critical problem press contacts deep understanding of technology + market forces perseverance B2B > B2C resilience your health your family access to capital VISION fiercely accountable a strong #2
- 22. Customer Research Identify Opportunities Test Propositions (cyclen times) Supplementary Research Get out in the field.Ask open-ended questions. OBSERVE real behaviors. Distill your findings. Extract out the opportunities. Let the data speak for itself. Start with sketches + validate before moving on. Don’t bias with friends. Augment your learnings with market data, too. Day Job Killer #2 Advisors Day Job Unless you’re funded, keep this going. Reduces $ stress + keeps you learning. Don’t labor over a cofounder or senior staff. Get great executors. Committed, diverse, connected. Give clear remits. 2 yr vest / .25 points. Unless you’re funded, keep this going. Reduces $ stress + keeps you learning. Legals Operations Beta KPIs that Matter (to fund, scale) Incorporate. Establish master docs (employment, MSA, SOW, NDA, etc.) Get a PEO. Benefits, payroll, etc. Best: Justworks* (disclosure - client). Plan for initial release, capturing / interpreting feedback (quant + qual). Commit to the metrics that matter: http://bit.ly/StartupKPIs PLAN THE WORK, WORK THE PLAN VALIDATEBUILDBUILD
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- 26. Plan the work,work the plan. Your reputation matters more than your resume. Anything of lasting value and impact takes time. Master a domain before starting your own thing. Neglect neither your health nor your family.
- 27. Plan the work,work the plan. Anything of lasting value and impact takes time. Your reputation matters more than your resume. Master a domain before starting your own thing. Neglect neither your health nor your family.
- 28. Plan the work,work the plan. Anything of lasting value and impact takes time. Your reputation matters more than your resume. Master a domain before starting your own thing. Neglect neither your health nor your family.
- 29. Plan the work,work the plan. Anything of lasting value and impact takes time. Your reputation matters more than your resume. Master a domain before starting your own thing. Neglect neither your health nor your family.
- 30. Plan the work,work the plan. Anything of lasting value and impact takes time. Your reputation matters more than your resume. Master a domain before starting your own thing. Neglect neither your health nor your family.
- 31. @lesliebradshaw tinyletter.com/lesliebradshaw Stay Professionally Excellent: StayIn Touch: leslie@madebymany.com linkedin.com/in/lesliebradshaw slideshare.net/lesliebradshaw