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5 Business Books I Wish I’d Read Sooner

OpenView Labs

However, it’s hard to argue that something is genuinely new in human endeavors like leadership, politics, and business. Have there been other works that have gone deeper into accountability, trust, vulnerability, and communicating with clarity? The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (Published 2006).

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My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury’s Immad Akhund

Andreessen Horowitz

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. There was plenty of instant messaging and plenty of web communication things, they just all kind of sucked. I struck up some partnerships and we did some stuff but there wasn’t strong kind of leadership or even that many hires around sales partnership or marketing.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New Chief People Officer, Marjorie Ajero

BetterCloud

Her leadership at companies like Group Nine Media and Everyday Health has prepared her to successfully take on her new role as BetterCloud’s first chief people officer (CPO). Then I returned to New York City in 2006, and I’ve been here ever since. You studied HR, you’ve practiced HR, and now you’re a CPO.

Scale 40
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10 sureshot practices to supercharge your DevOps effectiveness

Audacix

Then, agree on how they will communicate and share information and learnings to transform your culture to one that aligns to DevOps principles. State Of DevOps Report 2018 Communication is the key to solving most business challenges. So it will not surprise you to learn that sharing and communication is a "key pillar" of DevOps.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Here are mine: Maximize collaboration and communication between developers and system operators. To incite this revolution in your own organisation you need to help your people work out how they can collaborate and communicate better. State Of DevOps Report 2018 Communication is the key to solving most business challenges.

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How to Make Deal Support Your Sales Organisation’s Secret Weapon

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

We consider sales enablement to be a bottom of the funnel (BOFU) function, but after listening to the sales and marketing leadership it became apparent that I could have the biggest impact by strategically focussing on the bottom of the BOFU, and providing “deal closing optimisation” activities to the business.

Scale 112
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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. How do you guys think about communicating the ROI of customer support?

Scale 188