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A-Players Create Success
- Success looks like a thriving middle-class of creators, not just the most popular 1%, plus the production and growth teams surrounding them building sustainable careers by delighting a niche audience.
from How the Creator Crisis forced artists to be founders by Jack Conte
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What the biggest problem you have is: Hiring and retaining A+ superstar employees and freelance help. You probably have B and C player help. They're not good enough for you to truly "let go" and trust them to do a good job. It seems only you care about quality.
from Beyond the Agency Box by Frankie Fihn
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- I could absolutely imagine companies where sales is the starting gun, not the finish line, and everything that happens after the starting gun is owned by success, and that the success team -- maybe it should be called something different than success in this case -- becomes incredibly central to how accounts grow and how they expand over time.
from PLG-focused VC on the sales and marketing strategies of product-led teams by Jan-Erik Asplund
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- Success: Enable customers to teach each other how to better use your product and be more successful in their careers. Example: Salesforce’s Trailblazer program
from A founder’s guide to community by David Spinks
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- In the future, those who achieve the greatest results with the least number of employees will be admired above all others
from The New Status Game for Companies: Fewer Employees by Auren Hoffman
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- I now believe that there is no such thing as an A player in the abstract, across all time, in whatever ecosystem they end up in. The former head of recruiting at Bridgewater, Jeff Hunter, has a great essay in which he points out that former head of Apple stores Ron Johnson was an “A player” by any definition in Steve World (he was on the short list... See more
from What’s going on here, with this human? by Graham Duncan Blog
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