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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. What does your team and company need?

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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Remote Working | Natalie Nagele & Peldi | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! So natalie what did you do to to help your team right now? Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele.