The hottest Team Management Substack posts right now

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Data & AI Strategy: Running a Profit Centre

TeamCraft • 26 implied HN points • 02 Oct 23
💼 Business Data Strategy AI Team Management Leadership
  1. Data functions are often cost centers in companies due to various reasons like unnecessary scale or lack of impactful outcomes.
  2. Running a data department as a support unit can be challenging, especially because of the high costs involved.
  3. To transform a data unit into a profit center, collaborate with leadership to align on priorities and focus on delivering visible ROI while working on transformative projects.

Creating a Culture Where All Voices are Included

Suzan's Fieldnotes • 58 implied HN points • 24 Apr 23
💼 Business Leadership Company Culture Diversity Trust Building Team Management
  1. Building a positive culture where people feel empowered can unlock team potential.
  2. Emphasizing inclusion, equity, and access in the workplace is key for creating opportunities for everyone.
  3. As a leader, it's important to actively listen, create space for others, and build trust to shape and maintain a healthy team culture.

Uniting Data Fiefdoms Under Your Banner

TeamCraft • 13 implied HN points • 30 Oct 23
💼 Business Data Management Company Culture Business strategy Team Management
  1. Uniting data fiefdoms under one banner can be challenging due to siloed incentives and data fragmentation.
  2. Data functions often lack proprietary data but have access to all data, highlighting the importance of understanding data context.
  3. Creating a Single Customer View can be a game-changer for businesses, enabling better attribution and decision-making based on a holistic customer journey.
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How to lead teams through war [Storytime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 19 implied HN points • 04 Feb 23
💼 Business Leadership Team Management Startup Community Building Crisis Management
  1. Communicate with your team as people, showing empathy and understanding during tough times can help them feel connected and supported.
  2. Include the entire team in important information and decisions to foster a sense of unity, responsibility, and transparency.
  3. Lead by being a guiding light during crises, providing clarity, direction, and ensuring the team stays focused on the common goal.

Chasing highs that hurt your product

Product Managers at Work • 6 implied HN points • 19 Jun 23
💼 Business Product Management Analytics Team Management Execution Prioritization
  1. Jumping into implementation without sufficient customer discovery can hurt product success.
  2. Focusing on firefighting and feature development without data analytics can be detrimental to the product.
  3. Constantly pinging team members about updates may not be an efficient way to drive execution; creating efficient systems is key.

The Unconventional Journey of Virgílio and Sword Health

The Healthtech Initiative • 2 implied HN points • 13 Sep 23
💼 Business Healthcare Innovation Team Management Product Development Company Culture
  1. Virgilio's journey with Sword Health shows the importance of resilience and commitment in innovating healthcare and technology.
  2. Overcoming obstacles like limited funding helped shape a robust company culture, attracting investors and grants.
  3. Sword Health's success came from addressing healthcare buyers' needs, embracing complexity, and prioritizing talent and team management.

On challenges - How to effectively lead an inexperienced team of junior developers

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 10 Feb 24
💼 Business Leadership Team Management Training
  1. Good leadership requires good planning. Freewheeling attempts to tackle problems as they come can lead to lack of focus and reduced effectiveness of the team.
  2. Figure out what kind of team you have by identifying individual strengths and weaknesses. Understand the different types of juniors - technical, process, and behavioral.
  3. Develop your team by providing focused training for technical juniors, emphasizing process understanding for process juniors, and addressing behavior challenges for behavioral juniors.

5 lessons from my journey at Yellow.ai

Shubhi’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 13 Apr 23
💼 Business Startups Sales Product Development Team Management Global expansion
  1. The importance and excitement of sales in converting prospects, understanding pain points, and delivering magical demos to create value.
  2. The satisfaction and learning in ambitiously building products, overcoming challenges, and evolving with customer feedback.
  3. The power of taking action, owning situations, setting aggressive goals, and focusing on solving problems to drive productivity and success.

Get Your Product Back On Track

Build To Scale • 0 implied HN points • 10 Oct 23
💼 Business Product Development Team Management Process Improvement Collaboration Startups
  1. Implementing a Product Council can improve visibility, predictability, and provide a standardized process to address common scaling challenges in companies.
  2. The Product Council involves key leaders from different business functions working together to review and approve development plans, ensuring alignment and awareness across departments.
  3. Regular Product Council meetings help drive alignment, reveal problems early, and increase collaboration between Product and Engineering teams, ultimately making the development process more predictable and effective.

A Tool For Getting Clearer Expectations 🏆

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 12 Apr 22
💼 Business Team Management Communication Conflict resolution Leadership Workplace dynamics
  1. Unhealthy workplace conflict often stems from mismatched expectations.
  2. Teams should be intentional about establishing shared expectations through activities like team chartering.
  3. Using an expectations scale of deficient work, adequate work, and great work can help clarify commitments and prevent misunderstandings.

What do you think Product Managers do?

The Raising PM • 0 implied HN points • 23 Feb 23
💼 Business Product Management Leadership Startups Entrepreneurship Team Management
  1. Product Managers focus on using soft skills that become hard in the role.
  2. Product Managers set the vision for the product and work on details without losing sight of the big picture.
  3. Product Managers should be willing to take on tasks outside their job description and take full responsibility for the team's success or failure.