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Lead with Empathy, Speak with Candor | Kim Scott

Peter Winick

Kim Scott Yeah, well, you know, I had a strange motivation for my career as an operating executive. I don’t scale. So I think most people who write, most people who have been operating executives are not interested in writing. At the point when they are operating executives, many of them after the fact want to.

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Deploying AI Requires Understanding What’s Both Possible and Practical

Michael McKinney

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. Use the principle of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling quickly.”

Scaling 284
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Navigating Virtual Teams and Complexity Theory | Dr. Robert Gordon

Peter Winick

I actually ended up at another different company building some other ships for a different operator. And so because, you know, I had worked at Crystal Cruises at Viking Cruise Line, I also worked with a residency which operates the ship called The World, which is the only private residential cruise ship at sea.

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Navigating Global Expansion | Larry Harding

Peter Winick

Through strategic partnerships with legal and financial professionals and by utilizing their own services internally, HSP Group builds trust and demonstrates its expertise in managing global operations. But that doesn’t scale easily, especially at night. So I’ll focus on the operating folks first or exclusively the.

Education 294
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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

However if you find this channel to be successful, you’ll also eventually one more scale. This is where sometimes I’ll see people working on episodic usage apps, like travel/health/etc asking the question, how do I make my product virally? I want free users! Advertising is on that list, SEO too, and so is viral growth.

Marketing 105
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Growth KPIs & Company OKRs: combining the two

Growth Hacker

While the North Star Metric and following objectives should guide the operation and future market impact, allowing for fast experimentation and quick decision-making, the OKRs will serve as a common representation of said impact, translated to business metrics and results. Ex: Conversion rate optimization of a landing page.

KPI 102
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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Mike Griffiths

Leadership goes back as far as people have lived together and worked together to achieve common goals, whether invading a neighboring tribe, traveling to new lands, or building a large structure. It can be learned and exercised on a small scale before being brought to bear on larger groups. Real leadership is based on sound theory.

Diversity 128