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White Paper: Five Success Traits All Startup Employees Must Have

5/4/2020

Executive Summary:
The world of startups and small business can indeed be an exciting place to be. Its commonly characterized as highly collaborative, fast pace, less bureaucratic and wildly innovative. While this sounds great in theory, in practice the world of a startup can be rife with challenge, including heavy amounts of stress and uncertainty. It’s vital we as professionals analyze our personalities and professional behaviors to assess whether or not we would do well in the startup world - before we actually jump in. Knowing what you’re up against before you dive in will allow you to determine if it’s appropriate for you to consider the startup space, small business and or entrepreneurship.

Author: Travis Smith

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Monday Quickie - Turn Your Job Interview Into a Successful New Career

9/30/2019

Butterflies, Nerves, and the Human Experience

It’s exhilarating, yet marginally terrifying! You’ve got butterflies in your stomach. Butterflies of excitement, or is it nauseous butterflies? These feelings, normal as they may be, describe two life experiences: job interviewing and dating. The butterflies of interviewing for a job are often characterized as the same response we get when we go on a date. They feel the same, seem the same and often produce the same outcomes because a job interview and a date are in fact one in the same. While that may seem like an unpopular parallel to draw stay with me a moment while I explain why dating and job interviewing is one in the same. Also, why it’s important to understand this similarity and how it impacts your experience and ability to land the job you're interviewing for.

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Monday Quickie – How to Be Successful in the Start Up World

8/19/2019

My Story in the Startup World

Working for big business certainly has its perks, there’s no doubt about it. Stability, direction, benefits, work that is defined – you name it. For some, this is the ideal work environment. We plot along through our 8-5 and enjoy the consistent pace that comes with it.

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Monday Quickie – We Must Act NOW to Uplift STEM Education

5/20/2019

Avoiding Autopilot

This week I’ll have the opportunity to participate in an impactful event here in Irvine, CA covering women in medical device leadership. With this being the 3rd annual event, the team putting it together was concerned primarily with how we would pull off the event and do so while keeping the content fresh and appealing. Needless to say when you’ve done something twice its really easy to have the 3rd end up on autopilot. Just ask Al Pacino, he’ll know exactly what you’re talking about as a result of Godfather III. (my first of many digressions in this article)

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Monday Quickie - Before You Move Into Management, Consider These 5 Things

5/13/2019

What Makes a Successful Manager

For many Americans career progression is as important to them as the air they breathe. When we’re at a point in our careers where we’re looking for the next best thing or a new challenge often times it means taking into consideration a management role.

To be successful in management, or leadership for that matter, it requires a completely different set of skills which are typically very different than the skills which were needed to be successful in a staff level role. When we are a staff employee, meaning we don’t have any direct reports, our focus is to ensure we do the best individual job possible. Regardless if we’re a part of a team or not, when we’re a staff employee we really have one main concern – make sure our butts are protected by doing a great job.

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White Paper: Five Success Traits All Startup Employees Must Have

Monday Quickie - Turn Your Job Interview Into a Successful New Career

Butterflies, Nerves, and the Human Experience

Monday Quickie – How to Be Successful in the Start Up World

My Story in the Startup World

Monday Quickie – We Must Act NOW to Uplift STEM Education

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What Makes a Successful Manager

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My Story in the Startup World

Monday Quickie – We Must Act NOW to Uplift STEM Education

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What Makes a Successful Manager

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