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If Times Are Tough — Don’t Hide. Be Present.

SaaStr

As a startup, there are few things more important than Being Present: Your customers need to believe. Be Present. Be Present. Lay low and just “focus” until you can get growth back on track. Stare at that monitor, until you figure it out. It’s natural, but please, don’t do that. They didn’t just buy your product once.

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Overcoming Presentation Anxiety with Nils Vinje

30 Day Leadership

I learned a very powerful leadership lesson long before I became a people leader. However, I had to give a presentation in one of my classes that represented a big part of my final grade and that was a challenge. It was a challenge because I was extremely nervous and anxious about presenting in front of the class.

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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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My Perspectives on Growth (Presentation)

Kellblog

In my new capacity as an EIR at Balderton Capital , I recently gave a presentation to a leadership meeting at a high-growth, Balderton-backed startup offering my perspectives on growth and the challenges that come with it. I discussed these five challenges: Next-levelitis , an obsessive focus on scaling everything to the next level.

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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

Learning objectives: How to create a roadmap that helps the team focus on what they need now, while offering a look-ahead to the future How to leverage your product's position on the technology adoption curve to choose the right customer-focused roadmap How to present options in a rolling wave roadmap, especially if your product is novel and not yet (..)

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Should all CEOs be required to have annual leadership training?

SaaStr

Everyone can benefit from leadership training. We just got back from the SaaStr Fund founder retreat and while I was a bit reluctant to do it, we did leadership training. This year it was focused around messaging and presenting your company. The post Should all CEOs be required to have annual leadership training?

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The Engineer's Route to Leadership with Jerome Placido

30 Day Leadership

In this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Jerome Placido , Sr. 2:07 - First leadership position - Jerome wasn't looking for leadership when the opportunity presented itself. At the B2B Leaders Academy, you can gain access to monthly leadership training and live coaching.