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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Innovation 14. To overcome this challenge, the best companies continually innovate and create new products to offset the maturation and decline of existing ones.

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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. Employee engagement skyrocketed, and the firm met or surpassed 4 of 6 criteria of the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work.

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

“While IT services such as applications development and deployment and project-oriented services will be the largest category of spending in 2017 ($275 billion), software purchases will experience strong growth (7.9% Additionally, research shows that in 2015, only 29% of in-house software development projects succeeded.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) In truth, innovations in the past few years are helping evolve the data lake (swamp) into a data lakehouse! Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to.

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