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Reflections on leadership, culture, & growth | Kieran O’Neill | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

Kieran’s focus at Thread is to drive the growth of the business and keep developing – not maintaining – the company culture. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. million customers before being acquired in 2012.

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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Cross-functional leadership. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting.

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The Stories Your Customers Tell You | Sally Foote, GoCompare | BoS Europe Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

In this talk from BoS Europe 2020, Sally Foote (VP of ECommerce at GoCompare) shares her experience and expertise working with some high-profile digital businesses operating at scale to manage profitable growth and innovation in their organisations. Famously, pre-automobile era, people didn’t want a car, they wanted faster horses.

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Product Manager Career Path In Google, Amazon, Facebook & Microsoft

The Basics of Product Management

In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer). This guide can also help in planning your career development plan as a Product Manager.

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

The February 2020 McKinsey Quarterly article Are You Asking Enough From Your Design Leaders? Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. indicates the struggle is real. Embrace Iteration. user group events.

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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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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

of leadership roles. Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why?