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Doing less with less

Seth’s Substack • 3 HN points • 01 May 23
💼 Business Team Management
  1. During economic downturns, many companies adopt a 'do more with less' strategy by reducing costs and staff.
  2. A 'do more with less' approach can buy time and drive efficiency, but it may lead to hidden risks and instability.
  3. Consider a 'less with less' strategy of narrowing focus and cutting scope to continue innovating with a concentrated effort.

Uniting Data Fiefdoms Under Your Banner

TeamCraft • 13 implied HN points • 30 Oct 23
💼 Business 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.

Chasing highs that hurt your product

Product Managers at Work • 6 implied HN points • 19 Jun 23
💼 Business Team Management
  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.

Joining Complete

Anant’s Newsletter • 2 implied HN points • 20 Aug 24
💼 Business Team Management
  1. The author has transitioned from a successful role at Brex to the startup Complete, focusing on a fresh and exciting challenge. This shift emphasizes the appeal of smaller companies and a return to foundational startup experiences.
  2. The importance of strong company culture and team dynamics at Complete is highlighted. The author values the mix of talent, humility, and ambition within the team, which fosters an inspiring workplace environment.
  3. Complete addresses a significant issue in the corporate world: managing employee compensation efficiently. The platform aims to streamline this complex process, making it easier for companies to retain talent and ensure fair compensation practices.
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The Unconventional Journey of Virgílio and Sword Health

The Healthtech Initiative • 2 implied HN points • 13 Sep 23
💼 Business Team Management
  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.

Chuye^.n gia^'u nghe^`

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 19 implied HN points • 17 Jul 07
💼 Business Team Management
  1. Some individuals may choose to hoard knowledge, fearing competition or loss of job security, but sharing knowledge can lead to mutual growth and understanding.
  2. People with strong technical knowledge are often generous in sharing, potentially because their expertise is broad and well-established.
  3. Sharing knowledge not only enhances one's own understanding but also helps others learn and grow, creating a collaborative environment for progress.

Shape your team to be a profit centre

🔮 Crafting Tech Teams • 0 implied HN points • 27 Jun 23
💼 Business Team Management
  1. Teams can be shaped to focus on increasing profit targets, rather than just reducing costs.
  2. Utilizing Tactical Agility by feature slicing across fully functional verticals can help increase profit targets for high performing teams.
  3. Understanding the subtle and unintuitive economics of Agile can help in shaping teams to be more effective profit centres.

9 Steps To Hire The Right Designer

VERY GOOD PRODUCTIZED GUIDES • 0 implied HN points • 18 Jun 24
🪑 Design Team Management
  1. It's important to hire based on shared values and character, not just skills. People can learn skills, but their attitude and fit with your team are crucial.
  2. Ask candidates about their life goals and mindset. Understanding what drives them helps ensure they align with your company's vision and culture.
  3. Communication is key in a design role. Look for designers who listen well and empathize with clients, as it leads to better designs and relationships.

What do you think Product Managers do?

The Raising PM • 0 implied HN points • 23 Feb 23
💼 Business 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.

🐿️ The Tyranny of Structurelessness - The Insanely Profitable Tech Newsletter

Squirrel Squadron Substack • 0 implied HN points • 17 Dec 24
🕹 Technology Team Management
  1. Many teams struggle to generate new ideas because they lack a clear strategy. It's important to have methods to inspire creativity and gather input from everyone, not just a few leaders.
  2. Informal decision-making can lead to power imbalances where only a small group influences ideas. This can cause confusion and make others feel left out of the process.
  3. To improve teamwork and idea development, it's crucial to establish clear processes and invite diverse voices into discussions. Transparency about who makes decisions can help everyone feel more engaged.

Get Your Product Back On Track

Build To Scale • 0 implied HN points • 10 Oct 23
💼 Business Team Management
  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.

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

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 10 Feb 24
💼 Business Team Management
  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 Team Management
  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.

A Tool For Getting Clearer Expectations 🏆

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 12 Apr 22
💼 Business Team Management
  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.

RDEL #30: How does imposter syndrome impact developer productivity?

Research-Driven Engineering Leadership • 0 implied HN points • 19 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Team Management
  1. Imposter syndrome affects software professionals significantly, with over half experiencing intense imposter feelings.
  2. Software engineers with imposter syndrome reported lower productivity across various dimensions, highlighting the negative impact on performance.
  3. Managers can help reduce imposter feelings in their team by prioritizing psychological safety, implementing mentorship programs, and addressing diversity to improve team dynamics and productivity.

Data Leadership #5 How to lead your data team like a boss

The Orchestra Data Leadership Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 17 Oct 23
💼 Business Team Management
  1. Managing a data team can be challenging due to the breadth of responsibilities, team size, and tasks' nature, which require a project-focused approach to work.
  2. Aligning expectations with stakeholders, particularly those with low data literacy, is crucial for effective leadership in a data team.
  3. Investing in individual development, avoiding tribal knowledge, and focusing on project management can help mitigate challenges related to team size, pressure, and upskilling.