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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

By embracing constructive criticism as an opportunity for improvement, teams can foster an environment conducive to innovation. This approach promotes respect and professionalism, ensuring that constructive criticism is provided in a manner that preserves the recipient’s dignity.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Chances are, you'll also be expected to contribute to the executive or company strategy decisions being made at the management level. Instead, these companies may simply employ engineering managers and a Chief Technology Officer to oversee them.

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Product Qualified Leads (PQLs): A use case in CS/Product collaboration

Gainsight

Working together, these two disciplines can create powerful strategies to increase Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). These strategies rely on complementary efforts that achieve results that are more than the sum of their parts. Putting it all together in a PQL strategy. The art and science of CLV.

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

People-First Product Leadership

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Attitude The candidate is constructive and confident, not condescending or narcissistic, when sharing their background. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat.

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Introvert's Secret Weapon for Commanding a Room (And Turning Conflict into Growth)

People-First Product Leadership

Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. Handling Difficult Situations with Emotional Intelligence : Employ strategies such as visualizing negative comments passing by without impact and labeling feelings to manage and diffuse tense situations.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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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. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time.