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The “Idea Bake Sale” and Why It’s a Bad Idea to Have One

Kellblog

They never have any new ideas about how to fix our problems.” ” “Other than asking me for more headcount. And maybe even what new products we should build.” But what happens Monday morning, when everyone sees the company-wide message announcing the new initiative? They’re not creative.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

I love their Guide to Internal Communication , their pushback against insane 80-hour workweeks in It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work … REWORK … REMOTE … Getting Real. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I mean, you look around, process is broken, communication is broken. They need to know what is it to be a member of this community. Sam Taylor: And so, I met Bret.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. No one, I think,, is fond of showing up one day and being told that they have a new boss if they haven’t been engaged in that process. What works?

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GTM 137: The Biggest Business Turnaround You’ve Never Heard Of & The Growth Levers to Pull When Things Go Wrong

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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