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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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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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Sales Training is Only One-Third of What You Need to Be Doing for Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

A solid sales enablement strategy takes time to construct, but once it’s in place it fosters stability and consistency. Sales training is ideally suited for onboarding new hires and getting them up to speed on mandated company compliance or product knowledge. The don’ts for sales enablement.

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From Idea to IPO: All the Milestones Between You and the Public Market

OpenView Labs

It’s best not to leave leadership to change. Before you become a public company, you’ll begin acting like one, and that means lawyers and much overuse of the word “compliance.” Then there’s building out the rest of the team, after you’ve found your co-founder and C-suite cohorts. “B” B” doesn’t mean inferior—it simply means second.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But Twitter is pretty much free and people are really honest with their opinions, especially their constructive criticism. ” But sometimes haters want to help, and there’s value in looking at that constructive criticism and taking a real look back inside the product to say whether or not they’re right.

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Bridging Buyer-Seller Gaps like It’s 2020

SaaStr

Leverage document templates to speed-up creation and increase brand compliance. Admittedly, one of the biggest buyer-seller gaps our research uncovered is actually a result of having too many cooks in the kitchen (or too many cranes on the construction site). . Executive Leadership – 43%. Multi-threading deals. We promise.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

It’s that you should constructively build a team that’s going to be like assembling the Avengers where any one of them by themselves has amazing superpowers, but it’s the entire squad together that is going to save the world. The idea is that you shouldn’t make the decision either to do it yourself or offload it.