Finding My Tribe

Finding My Tribe

It’s been a long, often lonely, journey. But I’ve found my tribe. I started my professional career as a Ph.D. social scientist doing qualitative research for a decade at Stanford and the RAND Corporation. I loved the focus in the Academy on learning, evidence-based...
Building Revenue Team Alignment

Building Revenue Team Alignment

Today will be interesting. I have to tell a CEO that “yes, he really does need to lead go-to-market strategy.” Revenue team alignment has to replace revenue team acrimony. I want to be as polite as possible. But, wow, conflict between these sales, marketing, and...
Customer as the Source of All Truth

Customer as the Source of All Truth

Simple story, important insight. Your customers are the source of all truth. I was connected with a CEO working to turn around a company with a disruptive video infrastructure technology. They’d quickly gotten to $1MM in ARR then stalled. This CEO had a previous exit,...