The Issue:

A successful start-up requires three key ingredients: technology, money, and people. In the push to build the product and keep the money flowing, technical CEO's and founders may pay too little attention to leadership, work environment, culture, and communication. Since the success of the venture depends heavily on innovation, speed, and focus, the neglect of people issues can be costly.

Is This Your Company?

• Your organization is growing and communication is breaking down, causing wasted effort.

• Commitments aren't being kept. Schedules slip. Market windows are missed.

• Relationships with founders are not productive.

• The culture that's emerging isn't what you had hoped for.

• You're hiring the executive team and you're unsure how to maximize the odds of getting the right person.

• Your executive team doesn't make decisions and act quickly enough.

Help is Here!!

We will work closely with the CEO, founders, and executives to ensure that the human elements of your company enable the successful execution of your strategy. We can bring issues to your attention that might otherwise be invisible, point out patterns that are undermining your success, and help you make the changes before it's too late.

Services:

• Assessing leadership and culture
  An accurate picture of the CEO's leadership and the environment s/he is creating is a key tool for leveraging talent. Based on our research on the critical tasks and skills for the CEO of a high tech start-up, we will present you with a clear and specific profile and accompanying recommendations for change.

• Advising the CEO and key leaders
  Working one-on-one with the CEO, we will help you successfully integrate new executives, manage performance problems, develop a culture that executes swiftly and with focus, and other human issues vital to your success.

• Creating culture change
  The intense and intimate work of launching a company quickly breeds a shared set of expectations and behaviors - the company culture. Sometimes the culture develops in ways that drain talent and energy away from critical tasks. Working with the executive staff, we will help you understand and change that situation.

How your venture will benefit:

• Increased odds that you'll get the right product to market quickly enough to capitalize on your idea.

• Build an organization that executes with innovation, focus, flexibility, and speed.

• In short, leveraging human talent gives you that extra edge to win.