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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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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A ” She also joined SaaStr’s podcast where she discussed growing Intercom from 350 to 600 people and here was her advice on two common scaling mistakes: “The first mistake is taking your eyes off the customer. Leaders who do so will lose their product market fit.

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Product Team Structure – A Guide For SaaS Product Teams

User Pilot

A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. They lead a team that consists of developers and designers. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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The Evolving Role of the CEO: As a Company Scales, How Your Job Changes (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s about the people you bring into the organization, that culture and that’s what’s going to take you from kind of the zero to one to like a scaling company. How are you trying to scale it? Justin Kan : I just realized this talk is called The Evolving Role of the CEO, As A Company Scales, How Your Job Changes.

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