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Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It was kind of the luck of the draw.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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The Employee Experience Equation: 6 Data-Driven Ways You Can Drive An Exceptional Employee Experience

Valuize Consulting

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. Development Programs. 41% of employees consider career development and personal growth opportunities important to their job satisfaction ( SHRM , 2017).

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How To Approach Sales Coaching Like a Pro {Part 2 of 5} — the Right Use of Sales Data

Sales Hacker

This is part 2 of a 5-part series to help you develop the right approach to sales coaching. Coaching isn’t about who’s good and who’s bad. It isn’t about leaving the stars alone and trying to crack the code for the underperformers. You’ve got to think—what’s next for each member of my sales team.

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Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? How to Navigate the Market Downturn.

SaaSOptics

For example, 1,200 unique startups raised funding at Series B in 2021—about a third more than in each prior year since 2017. If your company leadership can identify these opportunities and agree to move forward, a strategic M&A deal could create ample business opportunities in the future. billion in 2020 to $55.9 billion in 2021.

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Assembling A World-Class Customer Success Organization: An Interview With Stephen Fulkerson, TSIA’s VP Customer Success Research

Valuize Consulting

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. It wasn’t until 2017 that I could do it myself since no one else had, and that’s where the idea came from. You have to spend a reasonable amount of time, sometimes years, developing.