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What does psychological safety mean, anyway?

Atlassian

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. In Leadership. 5-Second summary.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. For LB, this means having a consistent, well-defined rallying cry for her team to get behind. Improve your organization, not just your team.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ” What To Do?   No magic bullets. 

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. The team might work differently.

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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. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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Defining the Manager’s Role for a Product Approach, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

The manager’s role changes from control to serve the teams, so the teams can achieve their flow with technical excellence. If the teams maintain their technical excellence, you don’t need to worry as much about customer problems.). Product owners manage a given team’s backlog. (If

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5 Ways Your Company May Be Misusing OKRs

The Product Coalition

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. companies and teams get excited about OKRs and put every conceivable thing they may wish to work on into them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus.