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Revamping engineering manager onboarding at Asana

Asana

An engineering manager’s success impacts an entire team or group of teams, so setting them up for early success is a high-leverage investment. For most of Asana’s existence, “engineering manager (EM) onboarding” meant attending general engineering onboarding. Our mission & goals for onboarding.

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Company Rigor: The Discipline Of Growth

Chief Executive

Most founders did not grow up thinking about company operations, nor do they have the skills or the interest in becoming an effective operator. In order to achieve product-market fit, early-stage companies usually overinvest in their product and engineering functions and underinvest in other parts of the company.

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The Formula For Successfully Scaling Your Company Culture

15Five

In less than a year, 15Five has rapidly scaled the company up from about 70 employees to over 200. In Episode 12 of the Best-Self Management Podcast, our Chief Culture Officer, Shane Metcalf and I talk about the ways in which we’ve successfully scaled our company culture while undergoing hyper-growth, and how your company can do the same.

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Scaling Ideas for Impact | Jennifer Dulski

Peter Winick

Using technology to take ideas to scale. An interview with Jennifer Dulski about taking ideas to scale through publishing, social media, and technology. Thought leaders are often torn between scale and depth. Scale allows you to reach a large audience, while depth allows you to have massive impact.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m However if you find this channel to be successful, you’ll also eventually one more scale. There are only about a dozen large scale distribution channels that can propel a product to scale.

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What is an Area Tech Lead at Asana?

Asana

Since joining #teamasana 4 months ago, it’s become clear to me that successful areas (groups of engineering teams with a shared goal) tended to have many things in common, including the presence of an Area Tech Lead (ATL). That sounds like the type of project I would have loved as an engineer. Want to get to know some of our ATL’s?

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Why The CEO Must Be The Company’s Primary AI Leader

Chief Executive

Because AI initiatives are often led with timidity and are hampered by “pilot-itis,” a fixation on pilot projects at the expense of scale. Many wondered about scaling AI, its impact on the operating model, and how to embed the technology in their organizations.