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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? How can leadership teams ensure that a crisis is not self-fulfilling and how can one prevent that mindset? You’ve got executive people who want thought leadership.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Talk to the people at the DevOps coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Cultivate timely and constructive professional tension to help your team continually raise the bar.

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The Final Vote: Should Companies Take A Stand on Social or Political Issues?

Outseta

In fact, most have hierarchy and very intentionally designed decision making procedures specifically constructed to enable them making decisions when all of their constituents don’t agree. For some reason this is viewed as “how business is done.” I also empathize with this point—how could you not? How can you not respect that?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Doubt is a part of life.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. I think in general it’s only fair to the team, especially to those top performers, for the leadership of that organization to address performance issues as soon as possible. I don’t think leadership is about pure delegation nor about micromanagement.

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Procore in construction, ServiceTitan in field services, retail and that interaction for Toast, fleet transportation with KeepTruckin or workforce management etc. Twice for retail.

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