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

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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Why You Need to Keep MOATs Front and Center in Your Product Roadmap Strategies

Bain Public

The product manager’s role is to help determine the product mission that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals, transforming visions from strategy to execution. A bad example would be Yahoo. Remember that great companies will reinforce their MOAT(s) early and often. It’s also about strategic acquisition of IP.

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Black Women’s Business Collective founder Zanade Mann on advocating for your peers

Intercom, Inc.

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. ” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning.

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

Business of Software Conference

So natalie what did you do to to help your team right now? Natalie Nagele. yeah I mean I will start so WildBit turned 20 in October and so it started – thanks – and so the entire 20 years it’s been a remote company so we’ve been doing this for quite some time. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

And now what happens out of something like this is you’ll do a thing that your security professional thinks is bad. They’re pretty bad at it. This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. So, I started with this concept that we think people make bad decisions. This is great.