Startup Professionals Musings: How To Become an Extraordinary Entrepreneur Leader

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part.

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. 

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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Most investors admit that they invest primarily in people, not ideas, and they inherently believe that they can sense this leadership ability needed to get the rapid growth and 10x return we all strive for. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader.

I just finished a book by Dr. Peter Fuda, “Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders,” that identifies seven leadership themes, presented as metaphors, which I believe will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate your own entrepreneur leadership transformation:

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 Startup Professionals Musings: How To Become an Extraordinary Entrepreneur Leader
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CEO & Founder of Startup Professionals, Inc.; Advisory Board Member for multiple startups; ATIF Angels Selection Committee; Entrepreneur in Residence at ASU and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Published on Forbes, Gust, Young Entrepreneur, Harvard Business Review, and Huffington Post.
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