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

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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How Zapier supports 3 million users by investing in customer outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. The evolution of customer support. Customers] just want to use the solution.

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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Set your sales team’s written communication apart with GEMS, our email coaching framework

Intercom, Inc.

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Why are emails crucial to closing the deal?

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How I've Grown To 6 Figures In 3+ Years As A Content Agency Owner

Buffer Resources

  Agencies that were good at providing technical assistance or managing paid channels left clients, like my employers and other businesses we worked with, hanging when it came to content strategy and development.  After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team

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How to Make Better Decisions

Andreessen Horowitz

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? Today, we have another one of our early book launch episodes for a new book coming out next week, by expert decision strategist — and leading World Series of Poker player — Annie Duke.

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14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions

OpenView Labs

What’s your biggest weakness? “‘Tell me about the last piece of constructive feedback you received and what you did with that feedback.’. A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. It’s just not productive. I have two: 1.