Weekend newsletter #14
The best of what I've read this week, about operations, training and education, communication, and more
Hello!
This week’s newsletter is a condensed edition due to my power being out most of the day! Fun times!😆 So if a particular resource isn’t featured, it’s only because of my time limitation today.
For good news, I am feeling less sick and my new part-time job is going well. I am grading evaluation essays for a marketing master’s degree program at Western Governors University, which has a very interesting competency-based model. It’s a nonprofit university that’s been fully online since 1997, and its president previously worked at Amazon and at startups, so it’s an interesting mix of the tech world + academia. You may see a few additional marketing-related resources here in the future, as I dive back into that subject.
Onto the resources!
What I've been reading, watching, and listening to:
Charlie Saunders writes about attribution not being a credit game
Rosalyn Santa Elena discusses what RevOps should do when a new CRO onboards
Nicole Pereira talks about the time autonomy webinar she gave…and here, too!
Helen Tupper posts about her Harvard Business Review article on the role of feedback supporting squiggly career paths
The Secret CFO shares how much of a CFO’s time is spent on finance (spoiler alert: 10%)
Brooklin Nash has a great thread on increasing your pricing
Adriane Schwager writes about earning $9M in revenue in two years, in her top 11 learnings on leadership, entrepreneurship, and startups
Brian Halligan shared about exits paths for scaling startups
Amanda Goetz has 6 tips for everyone who manages people remotely
Articles, Reports, Guides, Newsletters
Sarah R. Barrett writes about information architecture and metaphor, shared by Abby Covert. I see the grocery store analogy that I use in my documentation system class is expert-approved, though it also confirms the struggle to find metaphors that work internationally and across generations!
Gustavo Razzetti thinks the 9 to 5 workday is dead
Adam Grant shares The 11 New Idea Books to Spring into Summer
Juan Mendoza at The Martech Weekly talks about the contentification of everything
Chief writes about How to Transform Your Anxiety Into a Leadership Superpower
Daphne Lopes asks, “Do we really need Customer Journey Maps?”
Podcasts & Webinars
KMI Webinar Series - Why is Organizational Development so Important in 2023? (KMI= Knowledge Management Institute)
Featured Events or Classes:
May 4 - Pavilion’s Elevate Event (you don’t need to be a member)
Culturish is offering a Time Autonomy class for the first group of beta testers
Operations Nation is partnering on a new class, How to be a Resilient COO.
Did you know there is a calendar view of HubSpot events? It is much easier to look through, compared to the list view. It helps you see the events related to World Certification Week!
Featured Book:
See the non-work books I scored from the San Diego book crawl. This is an event I’ve always wanted to attend and I finally completed it this year. Support your local independent bookstores! Though if I had known my power would be out today, I would have finished this newsletter and my work yesterday, and completed the book crawl today 😂
Featured Tip:
Have a backup plan for where and how you will finish any deadline work when you have no power :) A place with secure internet and/or electric outlets that are not blocked, so you can charge your phone and use your phone’s hotspot internet if needed. A place you can walk if electric trucks are blocking your driveway. A place with outdoor seating if you’re possibly still sick and don’t want to infect people or friends’ houses. Since I recently moved, I had not yet scouted the nearby coffee shops for all of these features!
Featured Job:
I didn’t save any job openings this week -- if you ever have a job opening you think would fit well here, send me an email/message/Slack/ your communication of choice.
Self-Promotion of the Week:
My next 2-week documentation course starts in June
The next HubSpot RevOps bootcamp I created and co-teach starts on Thursday and is almost at the 250-person cohort limit! This 6-week live course is free for HubSpot customers and partners.
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