{"id":1375,"date":"2008-03-27T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/s-eating-grin\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:40:02","slug":"s-eating-grin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/2008\/03\/s-eating-grin\/","title":{"rendered":"S#&#038;% Eating Grin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good CEO friend used to tell me that no matter what is happening in your company, &quot;wear a s#$&amp; eating grin.&quot;&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather put it as putting on the cowl of leadership and stalwartness on every day.&nbsp; Startups are a roller coaster ride and if you as CEO are having a bad day; that really does rub off on your team.&nbsp; You could simply have a headache or there could really be something going on in the business that you don&#8217;t like.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t matter.&nbsp; Your attitude and persona positively (or negatively impacts) your company.&nbsp; I am not advocating that you walk the halls like some crazed cheerleader (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMrhoOHNOrI\">perhaps the best example ever from Steve Ballmer<\/a>).&nbsp; Consistently reporting operating results to the company (high-level goals, sales wins, etc), regular company meetings, and generally being available and open to feedback\/questions are simple things that you can do to make sure that everyone knows that the ship is moving in the right direction.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good CEO friend used to tell me that no matter what is happening in your company, &quot;wear a s#$&amp; eating grin.&quot;&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather put it as putting on the cowl of leadership and stalwartness on every day.&nbsp; Startups are a roller coaster ride and if you as CEO are having a bad day; that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}