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How Stack Overflow Harnesses the Power of Flexible Leadership

OpenView Labs

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. It might be a little surprising to learn that the leadership style at Stack Overflow is decidedly not binary. Step 2: Adopt a flexible, non-dual approach to leadership.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OKRs were first developed by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, and they consist of a clearly defined goal (objective) and measures to track achievement of that goal (key results). Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. And once developed, it should occupy, along with Values, a marked amount of time in onboarding/re-boarding processes.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Serious About Customer Success? Your CRM is Not Enough!

ChurnZero

Development and Management: . Since CRMs focus on transaction al relationship data, the y struggle to glean insights from product usage information and other data. In fact, they allow your team to manage more accounts without the need to increase headcount. . Reporting and Dashboards: .

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

We use a separate Jira project for the following reasons: Jira because it is well integrated into…Jira where we manage all our developers’ tickets. Assign the right priority to bugs and the right status for them to be picked up by developers today (for critical bugs) or later (for non-critical bugs). If you like what you read in 2.