Growth Hacker

APRIL 4, 2023

You execute at a certain level of productivity, hit your team or company KPIs and get rewards. However, these types of incentive alignments fall short for growth teams. They cannot reverse engineer their challenges, mostly because they are chasing goals that are unvalidated and unproven. There are no playbooks.

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Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Our guest today is Owen Sammarone the Founder and CEO of Unleash the Knowledge, LLC; an online, educational community of lifelong learners and avid readers helping authors reach a larger audience. Yet you created this really quirky, interesting, cool niche that is a I would say, just another tool in the arsenal for an author to have.

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Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Our guest today is Lauren Maffeo, Author of “Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up” and an adjunct Lecturer of Design at The George Washington University. Lauren sets the tone for us by explaining what Data Governance is and how too much data is produced for one person or even a single team to own it all.

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Peter Winick

MAY 2, 2024

Transforming Teams with Compassion and Understanding A conversation with Rob Volpe about the impact empathy can have for leaders, teams, and organizations. If you have big ideas around EQ but are struggling to bring that content to your audience in a meaningful way, Peter Winick and the Thought Leadership Leverage team can help you!

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UVA Darden

JANUARY 12, 2023

The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests. The digital applications these teams build change the way we live and work, amplifying us. This is where you come in.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 22, 2022

The idea of knowing oneself is paramount to team and personal success. How well do the people on your project team manage their time? By employing a dynamic scheduling engine that is integrated with time management, your project schedules are updated in real-time as progress is logged. Footnotes. Sun Tzu the Art of War.

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Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have." - John C Maxwell , best-selling author, speaker, & consultant on Leadership. Who on your team is delivering exceptional output and value? The less you and your team waste time on the wrong activities, the more you'll accomplish that matters. ie- the 20%).

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15Five

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They’re thinking about how best to manage salespeople, engineers, and HR specialists, instead of considering Sandra, Bryan, and Mohinder, the individuals. Engineers are more technically minded, so you need to present facts and logic to get them on your side. How can I get the sales team to close more deals?” “How

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Asana

MAY 9, 2022

At Asana, we have found using Will Larson’s staff engineer archetypes helpful for thinking about and discussing experienced engineer career growth. And the question arose: could we do something similar for Engineering Managers? Similar to individual contributors, engineering managers (EMs) also have different shapes of impact.

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Peter Winick

JANUARY 29, 2024

Transcript Bill Sherman If you’ve practiced thought leadership while you’ve probably spent some time in the spotlight yourself, maybe you got a round of applause when you were on stage where you felt the joy of seeing your name listed as the author of an article or a book. I’m not quite right. But it’s of hardware.

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UVA Darden

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Teachers will become human development coaches, focusing on the individual development needs of each student cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally via individualized and small-team learning activities. What We Need to Do Student-centric development is not new.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 23, 2023

Most flat organizational structures come from companies that started out small and try to maintain that small team feel as they grow. In the purest expression of Holacracy, every team has a goal and works autonomously to deliver the best path to serve that goal. As your company grows, delegating authority is essential.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today’s guest is Jennifer Dulski, the CEO and founder of Rising Team which blends experience and science to help leaders ensure people on their teams feel valued, motivated, and connected. In addition, she is the bestselling author of “Purposeful: Are You a Manager or a Movement Starter?” So, where’s the happy medium?

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Get Lighthouse

MARCH 1, 2023

As a manager and leader, you work tirelessly to improve and learn how to lead your team better. In 2000, Daniel Goleman, the author of Primal Leadership, Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence , came up with a way to group leaders building on the work of renowned psychologists Douglas McGregor and Abraham Maslow.

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Peter Winick

AUGUST 28, 2023

He’s also the author of The Thought Leader Way: Leading Your Business with Thought Leadership in an Altered World, which details his experience and journey as a thought leader, and offers mental blueprints for helping new thought leaders and their teams excel. So it just created a flutter out there.

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Get Lighthouse

JULY 20, 2022

This is especially true as many authors are on a quest to hit a publisher's page requirement. These are seven of the best, timeless books on management available, which can help any manager improve in some of the most important ways that will help them, and their team succeed. Remember: People leave managers, not companies.

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AIHR

JUNE 21, 2022

“ In the article, the authors provide a bleak and one-dimensional view of people analytics that, if not seen in context, will damage the field and dilute the current and potential contribution that people analytics can make to HR. People analytics is a result of artificial intelligence (AI) 4. AI rarely plays a role in this process.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 30, 2023

He is also the author of Winners and Losers: Entrepreneurial Lessons from 30,000 CEOs on How to Come Out on Top, which teaches entrepreneurs how to win powerfully! That’s why I invited Don Shrinker, researcher and author of Winners and Losers, as well as partner with the Pacific Institute. Or are the tools using you?

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Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Shield your team as much as you can. A friend of mine worked at a company on their customer support team. While engineering promised they were working on it, after a few months of empty promises it really started wearing on them. Worried your team might be disengaging? 1) Shield your team as much as you can.

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Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 21, 2022

".The team appears to be more energized and I'm finding myself more confident in leading each individual. A Design Director wrote that to me after he started one-on-ones with his team and had an epiphany: the same results he's had with his team could be had with others he works with regularly. Fixing inter-team problems.

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Chief Executive

MAY 12, 2023

Their arrival precipitated a great conversation with Tom Davenport, a professor at Babson University, consultant and author, most recently of All In on AI. Directors and CEOs are in a unique position to help mitigate them by asking management teams smart questions. With every new technology, there are risks. The Uncanny Valley.

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Get Lighthouse

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies with successful onboarding programs also report greater revenue and profit margins: Run the numbers: A mid-level engineer can cost upwards of $200,000 a year. Each additional day it takes for you to get that new team member up and running costs over $800 in wasted salary alone. Even if you are, your employees probably aren't.

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Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For ten years Kim and her team have been working with people, teams, and leaders to achieve breakthroughs but have never codified or packaged the research and data they have been doing. She’s an author, a strategist, an experience designer and an innovation speaker. Today my guest is Kim Christopher.

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Get Lighthouse

MARCH 5, 2024

I recently finished reading a book written by a friend of mine and I have to say, it's a fun added wrinkle when you think about the author as your friend you've shared meals with and here they are with a book they wrote in their author voice. Delegate research to an eager team member who wants permission to spend time trying AI.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 13, 2023

Jeremy Utley is the Director of Executive Educational at Stanford D.school and adjunct professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering. Recently Jeremy worked with co-author Perry Klebahn to put their experience into their first book call titled “Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters.” And he is a friend. So here we are.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

MAY 24, 2022

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. This level of contingency planning allows your team to be competitive with others.

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Peter Winick

JULY 21, 2022

An interview with Karen Hold about her experience going from a consumer goods company to being a thought leader and author. Today , we are joined by Karen Hold , the founder of Experience Labs and co-author of Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey. Great basketball team. and my dad was a lawyer.

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Asana

JULY 11, 2022

“Hide Self View,” as it’s known on Zoom, and the “Hide Me” feature on Microsoft Teams are counterintuitive methods to stay more engaged in a meeting. Introverted people often feel self-conscious when they see their image on the screen,” Melinda Marcus, author of Read the Zoom , observes in a comment to Asana. Finally, 48.8%

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AIHR

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Victory Through Organization Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Wayne Brockbank, Mike Ulrich In this brilliant book, Ulrich and co-authors take a closer look at the HR function. According to the authors, excellence in a job, another myth, is not a function of getting the facts and steps right. You can get these right and still be average.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

JULY 18, 2022

6 An organizational culture that promotes psychological safety, encourages the workforce to question the status quo and learn, will benefit from teams that are more communicative, cooperative, agile and, arguably, content. However, waste occurs when tools do not enable team engagement in a way that improves their productivity.

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Get Lighthouse

MAY 7, 2022

Are you looking for high-potential people to join your team? It’s easy to say on paper you want to hire talented and hungry, yet inexperienced team members, but it’s much harder to actually successfully do that. So you’ve decided to hire someone new to your team, and you’re open to them being new or inexperienced.

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Chief Executive

APRIL 7, 2023

Corporate leadership teams have explored the pros and cons of the new way of working, weighing in worker demand against productivity levels and engagement metrics. He is very satisfied with the outcome, but like many, he says “the challenges are with maintaining connectivity/relationships with team members.” So, what happened? “It

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15Five

JULY 17, 2020

We’re big fans of OKRs because of their ability to focus people and teams on what’s important. When authored well, the measurable key results drive behaviors you seek such as transparency in work, self-managed teams, and cross-functional collaboration. We also use Scrum, and not just for our software engineers.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 17, 2023

When you start managing a new team, there's a lot of uncertainty: What do they think of you? And are they a talented team? As a manager, you need a strong relationship with your team, which starts with what you do on day 1. As a manager, you need a strong relationship with your team, which starts with what you do on day 1.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 20, 2022

She is also the author of Leading Wise: Inspirational Reflections for Corporate Leaders, which offers inspirational prompts and a global perspective for corporate leadership. So you’ve got writer, author, thought leader. I was really good with sciences and math, and so they pushed me into engineering and now neither of them.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 17, 2022

An interview with Rhea Wessel about creating an engine for content creation rooted in expertise. This “story engine” can help overcome the fear of giving away ideas, by generating a constant flow of topical insights. Rhea tells us to include an element of transformation – either in a person, team, or project.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Project managers and teams should work with stakeholders at all levels to understand the amount of engagement they can expect so they can plan for that. Getting buy-in from your team is one of many parts of your overall stakeholder engagement. About the Author. How to get buy-in from stakeholders.

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