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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Subscribe to get the rest of the series. This is part three in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Subscribe to get the rest of the series In the introduction I explained there are two types of companies : Tugboats, where growth feels like you have to put a ton of fuel in to get

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The 7 Biggest Blunders of The Experienced Leader

Leadership Freak

#1. Forgetting who serves who. Leaders serve others so others can serve others. It’s easy to begin thinking the people around you are there to serve you.

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This year’s top essays on growth metrics, consumer psychology, Uber, push notifs, NPS, and more

Andrew Chen

Readers, As you can tell, I’ve been a bit more active writing in the last few months. I wanted to do a quick roundup of my essays over the last year, in case you’ve missed any of them. I’ve published a number of guest essays and original writing on topics like growth metrics, consumer psych, the startup ecosystem in the Bay Area, push notifications, and much more.

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How to Respond to “We’ve Tried That Before”

Kevin Eikenberry

As human beings, change is all around us; and as human beings, we resist change. Sometimes that resistance is momentary, sometimes it lasts for a lifetime. To be more effective leaders, we must understand the dynamics of change, why people (including ourselves) resist, and how to overcome that resistance. One of the most common statements […].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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5 Leadership Lessons To Prevent A Toxic Culture of Harassment

15Five

I’ve been trying to stay out of the conversation regarding sexual harassment at Uber and beyond, mainly because I think that putting attention on toxic behavior only serves to amplify it. I also don’t have any direct solutions, since it appears that harassment persists despite company policies and procedures to eradicate that behavior. But after reading the recent news of several prominent male VCs sexually harassing female founders, and rereading the accounts of repeated harassment endure

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5 Tragic Blunders of Inexperienced Leaders

Leadership Freak

Blunder #1: Getting lost in their own work. Drive sabotages inexperienced leaders when they go into heads-down mode. Leaders often have work responsibilities beyond leadership.

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Screw You and Other Moments of Growth

Leadership Freak

Growth hurts. #1. Have a screw you attitude. Get up after being kicked to the curb. A screw you attitude is useful when others don’t believe in you. Prove them wrong. Plow forward.

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More Tragic Blunders of Inexperienced Leaders

Leadership Freak

Inexperience offers the opportunity to improve or the peril of developing patterns that hamstring your future. Here are two more tragic blunders of inexperienced leaders. #1.

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Do You Lead a Remote Team? We Want to Hear From You!

Kevin Eikenberry

I’m writing a new book with my co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, Wayne Turmel. The book, which publishes next April is titled, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, and we want your help. To make this book as helpful and practical as we can, we would love your input on our survey. […]. The post Do You Lead a Remote Team?

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The Introspection that Comes Before Complaint, Confrontation, or Correction

Leadership Freak

One of the most pathetic expressions of inept management is complaining about something that hasn’t been discussed with the people involved.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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The Difference Between Should and Will

Kevin Eikenberry

There’s one word that we sometimes use that is very dangerous. It can damage our credibility; it can promote guilt; it can diminish our motivation and a whole lot more. Let’s ban this word from our vocabulary for good. Tweet it out: Should never achieves anything. Banish that word from your vocabulary. @KevinEikenberry From This […].

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The Simplest Way to Become a Great Decision-Maker

Leadership Freak

Make decisions based on future value not sunk-cost. The above image isn’t the house we rented. However, the home was built in castle style. It even had a drawbridge.

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The Master Coach with Gregg Thompson

Kevin Eikenberry

A coaching conversation starts with you and your intention. How will you try to be helpful in your interactions with others so they walk away feeling inspired or leaning a new perspective? Gregg Thompson, author of The Master Coach, and President of Bluepoint Leadership, joins Kevin to discuss coaching as a discipline and the impact […]. The post The Master Coach with Gregg Thompson appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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