Inside the Minds of Startup Consulting Board Members

• •making warehouse labor safer, more ergonomic, and valued
• •preventing mental health crises before they happen
• •community advancement and showing underserved youth better pathways
• •having the right processes in place
• •developing people and building effective culture

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• •stigma of mental health in the workplace
• •getting paid for services rendered
• •companies obsessing over marginal gains (2% to 3% close rate improvement)
• •executives are stuck in traditional, 'suit and tie' mindsets
• •smaller brokerages lack resources to compete with mega brokers

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• •ranking in google organic search results
• •creating a culture where people are constantly developed
• •community impact through mentoring and opportunity creation
• •driving inbound and revenue
• •company growth (without quotas)

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• •98% vs 2% rule: focus effort on improving the vast majority of unproductive activity rather than marginal gains
• •build vs. retrofit - old building vs. new building changes feasibility and approach (don't talk about 60% of solutions for wrong context)
• •trusting gut instinct: make a jump if your gut instinct tells you to trust it
• •attention, awareness, action (3 a's) - bring attention to topics, label issues for awareness, and provide actionable steps
• •gated entry: maintain gated entry with application and waitlist to create tension and intimacy

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• •arbitrary figures or numbers in sales
• •ignoring ground-level realities and challenges people face
• •marketing going stale and not trying new channels
• •overly process-driven, robotic sales approaches
• •overlooking the tie between performance and mental well-being

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