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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. The Horizons Framework is an effective way to categorise projects, which in turn helps with assigning budget, headcount and timelines. Source: McKinsey 17.

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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. I’ll often start interviews with a simple “What’s your why?”, They knew the downstream effects. Even kids and pets.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. “The meeting is short, the options well-shaped, and the headcount low.

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

Point Nine Land

As interviewing 100 applicants can be quite draining, I recommend the following process: 1. A quick HR interview 2. Invite the candidate to a face-to-face or a Zoom interview. Culture fit interview. This is an exercise that should be done with input/feedback of the leadership team. If you like what you read in 2.