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- How Do I Find and Hire a Corporate Chief of Staff?
Maggie covers: • How to define the CoS role for your specific needs • How to find and hire the right CoS for you
- Your Startup’s API Could be Its Disruptor
Tomasz provides a framework - a "balance of data trade" - for thinking through what to expose versus what to receive when designing an API to support a platform strategy.
- How To: Create Product Content Guidelines
Andrea covers: • What are content guidelines? • What to research before creating guidelines • Which sections are needed in a draft • How to roll out the guidelines and iterate
- GitLab's Internal Customer Onboarding Process
This is the internal process document GitLab uses to manage their Customer Onboarding process. It covers: • Onboarding Steps • Time to Value Metrics • Managing Onboarding Delays • How to Use Their CS Platform, Gainsight
- Crafting sustainable on-call rotations
Ryn explains: • When to trigger off-hours alerts • How to track how many off-hours alerts occur • Creating and sustaining work/life balance
- Measuring User Retention
Tomer explains: • Key mistakes in measuring retention • Three retention metrics to measure: retention rate, upgrade rate, and mean time to churn • Taking action on retention data
- Master the Art of Influence — Persuasion as a Skill and Habit
Tyler explains: • Understand How Our Brains Make Decisions • Harness Biases to Make Your Case: Availability, Anchoring, Representation, Coherence, & Framing • Tactics: Keep it simple, make your solution or plan vividly easy to visualize, ruin surprises on purpose
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes" - and how to apply these understandings.
- Why you need an engineering ladder, and when to build one: Career paths, progression, promotion
Smruti explains: • Why both individual performance and team performance can be connected to career progression clarity • What form of engineering ladders are appropriate for organizations of 2, 20, 200, or 2000 engineers
- Role Proposals
Alex argues that justifying a hire is the first step in hiring. He then explains how to: • Explore alternate options • Model the ideal candidate • Define success • Write an internal scorecard • Write an external job description
- The Basics of Visual Design: Design Principles & Systems
Jasmine defines the principles of visual design: balance, emphasis, hierarchy, movement, pattern, and proportion. She then defines the two terms that make up design systems: elements and components.
- Defining Data Intuition
Ryan proposes the following definition for data intuition: a resilience to misleading data and analyses.
- Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
Erich defines the three skills underlying time management: awareness, arrangement, & adaptation. He then explains how to prioritize and improve each of these skills.
- The Manager's Handbook: Managing your time & calendar
Alex breaks time management down into a series of activities: • Regular calendar audits • Block off a "Top Goal" event in your calendar for each day • Spend your time on high-leverage activities • Proactively schedule in recreation • Regular energy audits
- On Time Management - Focus On What Matters
Zainab describes some common assumptions behind time management, and then argues that it is really about prioritization, not doing more. She then provides a framework for different types of work and a 5-step process to focus on the right things.
- High Leverage Time Management
Pete describes the time management techniques he used as CEO of Trulia, which include: • Use routines (and speed) to reduce cognitive load • Run High Leverage Meetings • Delegate & Say No • Constantly Recalibrate Your Focus • Adjust Time Management Techniques As You Scale
- Land your strategy by writing great pre-reads
Brad explains why a 2-page document, a "pre-read", has led to better product strategy review meetings than a slide deck. He then provides a process for how to write them, and 9 detailed best practice tips.
- Managing My Way to Project Management
In this slide deck, Juan Pablo provides an intro to project management using a cooking analogy.
- Why our dev team moved from Trello to Clubhouse
In addition to the actual tooling decisions, Tom explains the project management problems that drove the tooling change, which included: • Needing a way to show how cards related to each other • Needing to see how cards contributed to overall goals and progress