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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Leadership needs to consider funding areas, not just a single feature, because more supplemental subfeatures and finetuning will be required every time. Leadership needs to find a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the hard realities of customers and internal teams. Leadership needs to delegate to the talent they have hired.

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CMO + CRO = Love: Building Lasting Leadership with Gusto CRO Tolithia Kornweibel

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However, this push-and-pull doesn’t have to be part of your organization as long as you hire and empower the right leadership. Your market model will guide your leadership model. The CRO and CMO deserve a seat at the leadership table. It’s the never-ending stereotype –– marketing and sales are eternal “frenemies.”

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Level Up: Welcoming our New Cultural Leadership Fund Nonprofit Partners

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the last 5 years, the work of the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) has been growing and evolving to increase access to career paths and leadership roles in technology as an important gateway to wealth generation for the Black community.

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Why Remote Work Changes the Nature of Leadership, and the Kinds of Leaders to Recruit in Startups

Tom Tunguz

Many of our colleagues rise to lead through influence rather than authority, which is called emergent leadership. Typically, there are two ways to do this: by achieving goals or demonstrating leadership traits. These are called achievement and ascriptive leadership. Achievement outshines ascription.

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Tim Draper

Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates

What are some examples of companies and leadership that has impressed you? What sectors (e.g. ecommerce) are gaining traction in this new world? Can you provide business metrics you are prioritizing now more than you were a few months ago? What is something surprising/inspiring that you learned during COVID-19?

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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. The core challenges of leadership roles.

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5 Leadership Lessons Everyone Needs Right Now From GitHub COO Erica Brescia

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In her session, Erica shares her hard-earned leadership lessons– from selling her company to what she’s learned at Github, we’ll share her most essential leadership principles for any stage of business. #1 Just over a year ago, she sold to VMware and the company has since doubled in size.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders.

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Minnie Ingersoll

What are some examples of companies and leadership that has impressed you? What sectors (e.g. ecommerce) are gaining traction in this new world? Can you provide business metrics you are prioritizing now more than you were a few months ago? What is something surprising/inspiring that you learned during COVID-19?

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Ben Narasin

Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Ben Narasin, Venture Partner, NEA

What are some examples of companies and leadership that has impressed you? What sectors (e.g. ecommerce) are gaining traction in this new world? Can you provide business metrics you are prioritizing now more than you were a few months ago? What is something surprising/inspiring that you learned during COVID-19?

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The Mindset of An Investor Today - Arlan Hamilton

What are some examples of companies and leadership that has impressed you? What sectors (e.g. ecommerce) are gaining traction in this new world? Can you provide business metrics you are prioritizing now more than you were a few months ago? What is something surprising/inspiring that you learned during COVID-19?

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The State of Product Leadership Report 2021

This is just one of the findings in this year’s State of Product Leadership report. Delivery is the top success metric for product leaders. But should it be? Download the report to discover more ways product management is changing in 2021.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

When was the last time you trusted a roadmap to show you where the product could go and how the teams might get there? Because most roadmaps are at least five years long, teams are frequently unable to see the next set of essential features. Can your customers rely on your roadmaps to find out when new features will be released?

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

How to build leadership support for a culture of experimentation, no matter how mature your organization is. We'll cover: Why discovery and experimentation are important. How to accept and mitigate risk. June 4, 2019 9:30 AM PDT, 12:30 PM EDT, 5:30 PM BST

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Master the art of communication for team success, informed leadership, and nurturing strong customer relationships Don't miss out and register now! June 21, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT