Product School: International Nomad turned Amazon Product ManagerScott Wofford
The document is a slide deck presentation by Scott Wofford, an international nomad turned Amazon product manager, about 12 essential books for product owners. It begins with an introduction to Wofford's background traveling internationally and working at Amazon. The majority of the presentation focuses on recommending books for product management, motivation and productivity, and business and culture. It suggests books to help understand the product owner role, get customer feedback, work with engineers, motivate teams, deal with priorities, stay grounded, handle difficult times, and understand how companies like Google, Amazon, and others work.
The document discusses personal productivity and how to improve it. It suggests that people often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. It then presents a five step model for improving productivity: collect, process, organize, review, and do. The model advocates processing tasks one at a time, organizing materials into to-do lists and other categories, regularly reviewing progress, and focusing on the most important tasks. Discipline and accountability are important for effective execution.
Have you thought about your 2016 career plans? Now is a great time to do it, before another one-twelfth of 2016 is gone! In this Slideshare deck Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan walks you through your career options for 2016 and lends advice on Stepping Up in Your Career in 2016!
The Council of State Reception kicked off the inaugural weekend festivities in Raleigh. The reception welcomed the nine members of the North Carolina Council of State in the Duke Center for the Performing Arts. Over 800 guests mingled and enjoyed North Carolina cuisine like cornbread and barbecue canapés. The reception provided an intimate setting for guests to interact with state leaders like Treasurer Janet Cowell. Junior League of Raleigh President-elect Whitney von Haam was proud to be part of hosting the event among North Carolina's government leaders and successful women.
1. The document identifies the top 40 demand marketing "game changers" - marketing professionals who are driving innovation and achieving breakthrough results in demand generation.
2. A panel of expert judges used a nomination and evaluation process to identify the game changers, focusing on areas like engagement creativity, operational innovation, data acumen, sales collaboration, and revenue responsibility.
3. Profiles of the top 40 game changers are provided, highlighting their backgrounds, approaches, and insights into engagement creativity, tools, influencers, and other aspects of demand marketing.
This document discusses climbing the career ladder in libraries. It provides examples of career trajectories from librarian to director and alternative paths involving leadership roles. It recommends researching open positions, connecting with people in roles you want, gaining skills through training, volunteering, and reading. Developing mentoring relationships and positioning yourself as an expert can help advancement. Highlighting your work, supporting others, and getting good evaluations also contribute to moving up.
5 tips to getting the raise or promotion YOU deserveNando Rodriguez
The document provides 5 tips for advancing one's career: 1) have a reference point of where you are now and why, 2) be an expert in your current field and share knowledge, 3) be your own cheerleader when work does not speak for itself, 4) go beyond expectations by taking on extra projects and helping others, 5) back up requests for advancement with references to accomplishments that have made an impact without being entitled to any outcome. The document is authored by recruiters Nando Rodriguez and Charlene Narcelles and provides career advice in less than 3 sentences.
The document discusses the importance of teaching children social and emotional skills at a young age. Developing skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making helps children succeed in school and life. When these skills are explicitly taught and modeled, children learn to recognize and manage their emotions, show empathy for others, make responsible choices, and develop positive relationships.
Product School: International Nomad turned Amazon Product ManagerScott Wofford
The document is a slide deck presentation by Scott Wofford, an international nomad turned Amazon product manager, about 12 essential books for product owners. It begins with an introduction to Wofford's background traveling internationally and working at Amazon. The majority of the presentation focuses on recommending books for product management, motivation and productivity, and business and culture. It suggests books to help understand the product owner role, get customer feedback, work with engineers, motivate teams, deal with priorities, stay grounded, handle difficult times, and understand how companies like Google, Amazon, and others work.
The document discusses personal productivity and how to improve it. It suggests that people often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. It then presents a five step model for improving productivity: collect, process, organize, review, and do. The model advocates processing tasks one at a time, organizing materials into to-do lists and other categories, regularly reviewing progress, and focusing on the most important tasks. Discipline and accountability are important for effective execution.
Have you thought about your 2016 career plans? Now is a great time to do it, before another one-twelfth of 2016 is gone! In this Slideshare deck Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan walks you through your career options for 2016 and lends advice on Stepping Up in Your Career in 2016!
The Council of State Reception kicked off the inaugural weekend festivities in Raleigh. The reception welcomed the nine members of the North Carolina Council of State in the Duke Center for the Performing Arts. Over 800 guests mingled and enjoyed North Carolina cuisine like cornbread and barbecue canapés. The reception provided an intimate setting for guests to interact with state leaders like Treasurer Janet Cowell. Junior League of Raleigh President-elect Whitney von Haam was proud to be part of hosting the event among North Carolina's government leaders and successful women.
1. The document identifies the top 40 demand marketing "game changers" - marketing professionals who are driving innovation and achieving breakthrough results in demand generation.
2. A panel of expert judges used a nomination and evaluation process to identify the game changers, focusing on areas like engagement creativity, operational innovation, data acumen, sales collaboration, and revenue responsibility.
3. Profiles of the top 40 game changers are provided, highlighting their backgrounds, approaches, and insights into engagement creativity, tools, influencers, and other aspects of demand marketing.
This document discusses climbing the career ladder in libraries. It provides examples of career trajectories from librarian to director and alternative paths involving leadership roles. It recommends researching open positions, connecting with people in roles you want, gaining skills through training, volunteering, and reading. Developing mentoring relationships and positioning yourself as an expert can help advancement. Highlighting your work, supporting others, and getting good evaluations also contribute to moving up.
5 tips to getting the raise or promotion YOU deserveNando Rodriguez
The document provides 5 tips for advancing one's career: 1) have a reference point of where you are now and why, 2) be an expert in your current field and share knowledge, 3) be your own cheerleader when work does not speak for itself, 4) go beyond expectations by taking on extra projects and helping others, 5) back up requests for advancement with references to accomplishments that have made an impact without being entitled to any outcome. The document is authored by recruiters Nando Rodriguez and Charlene Narcelles and provides career advice in less than 3 sentences.
The document discusses the importance of teaching children social and emotional skills at a young age. Developing skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making helps children succeed in school and life. When these skills are explicitly taught and modeled, children learn to recognize and manage their emotions, show empathy for others, make responsible choices, and develop positive relationships.
The document discusses skills shortages in various industries and job functions based on a survey of 248 executives. It finds that executives are most concerned about shortages of technical/engineering staff, with over 60% finding it challenging to hire these skills. Shortages in strategic/corporate development roles are also a concern. While skills gaps exist, the situation is more nuanced than often portrayed, with only 5-8% finding it very difficult to hire for most other functions. Companies are addressing skills shortages through training programs. However, many candidates still lack soft skills like creativity and communication abilities. The perception of shortages varies between regions, with less pessimism in Western Europe than North America due to differences in economic growth forecasts.
This document discusses how to avoid being a "noob" or inexperienced person at a new job. It defines a noob as a newcomer who is inexperienced and may talk or act inappropriately due to lack of knowledge. The document recommends finding a mentor, paying attention to details, listening more than talking, always being truthful, and avoiding dumb mistakes. The conclusion is that to avoid being a noob, newcomers should listen and learn rather than talk excessively due to their inexperience.
This document contains descriptions of several entry-level healthcare jobs. The jobs require varying combinations of technical skills, such as computer proficiency, medical training, or certification in areas like radiology or home health. Soft skills emphasized across most roles include communication, organization, customer service, and the ability to multitask. Salaries for the positions range from $16-18 per hour for an IT help desk role up to $55,870 for a radiologic technician. The concluding paragraphs reflect on what was learned from researching these entry-level healthcare opportunities.
This document provides descriptions for several entry-level IT jobs, including technical and soft skills required as well as typical salaries. Jobs discussed include campaign strategist, UX designer, data scientist, information security specialist, software engineer, database analyst, computer network defense analyst, project management specialist, and computer network defense analyst. For each role, technical skills, soft skills, and average salary are listed. The value of the assignment is discussed at the end, noting the learning experience of identifying skills across different job descriptions and understanding how databases are organized.
Miles away from the tech Meccas of Silicon Valley and New York City, Illinois is establishing its own sort of #tech industry hub. We broke down the Illinois job market, focusing on occupation growth in Chicago and what area young adults think about careers in tech
CompTIA and Burning Glass - Opportunities in Chicago’s IT Landscape gives detailed statistics on employment opportunities, direct employers in local areas that are hiring, and knowledge of local in-demand positions.
Time Management Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as a component of the Pitt University Library System's Leadership Development Program, a year-long set of learning activities to strengthen ULS leadership capacity for achieving strategic initiatives, managing projects, and working in teams across organizational boundaries.
This document proposes implementing a career ladder for clinical laboratory employees at a university hospital to improve employee retention, motivation, and recruitment. The proposed ladder would have several levels with clear requirements for advancement involving certification, education, and taking on additional responsibilities. Benefits of the ladder include improved collaboration, knowledge sharing to prevent expertise gaps, and reduced training costs. Implementing the ladder would require developing job descriptions for each level, performance review criteria, appropriate financial rewards, and an evaluation process to monitor the ladder over time.
This document summarizes a presentation on boosting female leadership in global organizations. It begins with figures showing that organizations with more female leadership and more women on boards tend to outperform financially. However, women are underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. Common reasons for the leadership gender gap include lack of confidence, stress from disproportionate pressures, and lack of strong professional networks for women. The document calls for actions by employers to close the gap such as minimizing bias, providing sponsorship opportunities, and implementing career development programs. It provides examples of initiatives from various global companies and organizations to promote women's leadership. The presentation concludes with advice and inspiration from successful female business leaders.
This document discusses the importance of having a strategic vision and outlines key elements of developing a meaningful life and vision. It notes that without a clear vision, one risks being directionless and at risk of undesirable outcomes. An effective vision should be timeless, correct, and noble. It provides examples of visions from companies like Volkswagen and 3M. Developing a vision requires objective setting using SMART goals, prioritizing top priorities, planning activities, and controlling time to achieve goals and visions.
Startup Equity - Startup summer camp, 2014Pankaj Saharan
This document provides information about equity splits for startup founders. It discusses that founders typically own 100% of equity initially but may split it among co-founders. A 50-50 split is rarely fair as contributions can vary. Factors like ideas, expected future work, and experience should determine equity. Unequal splits require vesting to prevent founders leaving with large shares. The document warns that founder disputes can damage startups and outlines tools to help founders determine a strategic, fair split.
The document provides tips and strategies for marketing startups. It discusses how in the beginning no one cares about a new startup except the founder's mom. It then outlines strategies for growing readership and engagement like building thought leadership, improving customer engagement, and getting media mentions. Specific tactics recommended include public relations, social media like Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter, blogging, newsletters, webinars and more. It stresses listening to customers and focusing on the marketing funnel of acquisition, conversion and retention.
Fundraising & Investor Relations with Yaron GalaiSpark Capital
Yaron Galai is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and sold two companies. He provides lessons from his experience raising over $100 million in funding. Some key points include: keep your story and slides simple; focus on metrics that show growth and future revenue potential; understand your primary risk for investors; and choose investors who share your long-term vision for the company. Proper preparation and understanding the funding process can set companies up for funding success.
The document discusses 5 principles for administrating your vision: having a clear relationship between vision and administration, having a vision for your administration, organizing from the bottom up with clear roles and responsibilities, creating systems and processes as the organization grows, and using weekly dashboards to evaluate progress. It provides tips, statistics and examples to support administrating vision effectively through strong administration. The overall message is that vision requires strong administration to be realized.
If You Oracle Then You Should Twitter TooJeff Smith
This document provides tips and best practices for using social media, particularly Twitter, as an Oracle professional. It encourages developing an online professional network for career advancement, sharing knowledge and helping others. It offers suggestions for creating an authentic online persona, balancing personal and professional accounts, privacy settings, appropriate content, hashtags, app choices, and engaging with other Oracle communities beyond just Twitter. The document emphasizes quality over quantity of posts and participating in conversations naturally rather than forcing interactions.
The document encourages entrepreneurship, stating that it is necessary and the conditions have never been better. It acknowledges the two barriers to entry are having an idea and executing on it. However, it notes that less perfect ideas are better as they can be iterated on. The key advice is to start small, launch the smallest real thing possible, and learn through doing and repeating.
The dos & don’ts for career building,
colleaguery and being awesome.
(originally given to web/design/gfx students for ARTimation 11 at Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg, Illinois)
How to Groom Your Millennial Employees to Be Effective Young LeadersMonster
Due to demographic trends, many companies have to move Millennials into leadership roles sooner than generations before them did. But are your younger employees prepared to assume these roles and responsibilities? In this info-packed webinar, Lisa will provide tips and insights to help you begin fostering a leadership mindset within your Millennial talent (even an entry-level manager position is a leadership role!). And smart companies know the future of their success is based on grooming their Millennial employees sooner, rather than later, for leadership.
The tips and insights shared are things that both bosses and Millennials will benefit from!
The document discusses skills shortages in various industries and job functions based on a survey of 248 executives. It finds that executives are most concerned about shortages of technical/engineering staff, with over 60% finding it challenging to hire these skills. Shortages in strategic/corporate development roles are also a concern. While skills gaps exist, the situation is more nuanced than often portrayed, with only 5-8% finding it very difficult to hire for most other functions. Companies are addressing skills shortages through training programs. However, many candidates still lack soft skills like creativity and communication abilities. The perception of shortages varies between regions, with less pessimism in Western Europe than North America due to differences in economic growth forecasts.
This document discusses how to avoid being a "noob" or inexperienced person at a new job. It defines a noob as a newcomer who is inexperienced and may talk or act inappropriately due to lack of knowledge. The document recommends finding a mentor, paying attention to details, listening more than talking, always being truthful, and avoiding dumb mistakes. The conclusion is that to avoid being a noob, newcomers should listen and learn rather than talk excessively due to their inexperience.
This document contains descriptions of several entry-level healthcare jobs. The jobs require varying combinations of technical skills, such as computer proficiency, medical training, or certification in areas like radiology or home health. Soft skills emphasized across most roles include communication, organization, customer service, and the ability to multitask. Salaries for the positions range from $16-18 per hour for an IT help desk role up to $55,870 for a radiologic technician. The concluding paragraphs reflect on what was learned from researching these entry-level healthcare opportunities.
This document provides descriptions for several entry-level IT jobs, including technical and soft skills required as well as typical salaries. Jobs discussed include campaign strategist, UX designer, data scientist, information security specialist, software engineer, database analyst, computer network defense analyst, project management specialist, and computer network defense analyst. For each role, technical skills, soft skills, and average salary are listed. The value of the assignment is discussed at the end, noting the learning experience of identifying skills across different job descriptions and understanding how databases are organized.
Miles away from the tech Meccas of Silicon Valley and New York City, Illinois is establishing its own sort of #tech industry hub. We broke down the Illinois job market, focusing on occupation growth in Chicago and what area young adults think about careers in tech
CompTIA and Burning Glass - Opportunities in Chicago’s IT Landscape gives detailed statistics on employment opportunities, direct employers in local areas that are hiring, and knowledge of local in-demand positions.
Time Management Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as a component of the Pitt University Library System's Leadership Development Program, a year-long set of learning activities to strengthen ULS leadership capacity for achieving strategic initiatives, managing projects, and working in teams across organizational boundaries.
This document proposes implementing a career ladder for clinical laboratory employees at a university hospital to improve employee retention, motivation, and recruitment. The proposed ladder would have several levels with clear requirements for advancement involving certification, education, and taking on additional responsibilities. Benefits of the ladder include improved collaboration, knowledge sharing to prevent expertise gaps, and reduced training costs. Implementing the ladder would require developing job descriptions for each level, performance review criteria, appropriate financial rewards, and an evaluation process to monitor the ladder over time.
This document summarizes a presentation on boosting female leadership in global organizations. It begins with figures showing that organizations with more female leadership and more women on boards tend to outperform financially. However, women are underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. Common reasons for the leadership gender gap include lack of confidence, stress from disproportionate pressures, and lack of strong professional networks for women. The document calls for actions by employers to close the gap such as minimizing bias, providing sponsorship opportunities, and implementing career development programs. It provides examples of initiatives from various global companies and organizations to promote women's leadership. The presentation concludes with advice and inspiration from successful female business leaders.
This document discusses the importance of having a strategic vision and outlines key elements of developing a meaningful life and vision. It notes that without a clear vision, one risks being directionless and at risk of undesirable outcomes. An effective vision should be timeless, correct, and noble. It provides examples of visions from companies like Volkswagen and 3M. Developing a vision requires objective setting using SMART goals, prioritizing top priorities, planning activities, and controlling time to achieve goals and visions.
Startup Equity - Startup summer camp, 2014Pankaj Saharan
This document provides information about equity splits for startup founders. It discusses that founders typically own 100% of equity initially but may split it among co-founders. A 50-50 split is rarely fair as contributions can vary. Factors like ideas, expected future work, and experience should determine equity. Unequal splits require vesting to prevent founders leaving with large shares. The document warns that founder disputes can damage startups and outlines tools to help founders determine a strategic, fair split.
The document provides tips and strategies for marketing startups. It discusses how in the beginning no one cares about a new startup except the founder's mom. It then outlines strategies for growing readership and engagement like building thought leadership, improving customer engagement, and getting media mentions. Specific tactics recommended include public relations, social media like Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter, blogging, newsletters, webinars and more. It stresses listening to customers and focusing on the marketing funnel of acquisition, conversion and retention.
Fundraising & Investor Relations with Yaron GalaiSpark Capital
Yaron Galai is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and sold two companies. He provides lessons from his experience raising over $100 million in funding. Some key points include: keep your story and slides simple; focus on metrics that show growth and future revenue potential; understand your primary risk for investors; and choose investors who share your long-term vision for the company. Proper preparation and understanding the funding process can set companies up for funding success.
The document discusses 5 principles for administrating your vision: having a clear relationship between vision and administration, having a vision for your administration, organizing from the bottom up with clear roles and responsibilities, creating systems and processes as the organization grows, and using weekly dashboards to evaluate progress. It provides tips, statistics and examples to support administrating vision effectively through strong administration. The overall message is that vision requires strong administration to be realized.
If You Oracle Then You Should Twitter TooJeff Smith
This document provides tips and best practices for using social media, particularly Twitter, as an Oracle professional. It encourages developing an online professional network for career advancement, sharing knowledge and helping others. It offers suggestions for creating an authentic online persona, balancing personal and professional accounts, privacy settings, appropriate content, hashtags, app choices, and engaging with other Oracle communities beyond just Twitter. The document emphasizes quality over quantity of posts and participating in conversations naturally rather than forcing interactions.
The document encourages entrepreneurship, stating that it is necessary and the conditions have never been better. It acknowledges the two barriers to entry are having an idea and executing on it. However, it notes that less perfect ideas are better as they can be iterated on. The key advice is to start small, launch the smallest real thing possible, and learn through doing and repeating.
The dos & don’ts for career building,
colleaguery and being awesome.
(originally given to web/design/gfx students for ARTimation 11 at Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg, Illinois)
How to Groom Your Millennial Employees to Be Effective Young LeadersMonster
Due to demographic trends, many companies have to move Millennials into leadership roles sooner than generations before them did. But are your younger employees prepared to assume these roles and responsibilities? In this info-packed webinar, Lisa will provide tips and insights to help you begin fostering a leadership mindset within your Millennial talent (even an entry-level manager position is a leadership role!). And smart companies know the future of their success is based on grooming their Millennial employees sooner, rather than later, for leadership.
The tips and insights shared are things that both bosses and Millennials will benefit from!
Introduction to Entrepreneurial Management - Entrepreneurship 101 (2013/2014)MaRS Discovery District
The document provides an overview of entrepreneurial management strategies and concepts across 15 pages. It discusses:
1) The 5 dimensions of success for startups including customer, product, team, business model, and financials. Failure in any dimension can cause startups to fail.
2) Key entrepreneurial frameworks and theories from thinkers like Blank, Osterwalder, Ries, Christensen and others.
3) The importance of customer development, testing hypotheses through minimum viable products, and pivoting based on customer feedback through a lean startup approach.
4) Segmenting customers and focusing on a single market initially for easier market positioning and potential cash flow.
The document discusses the importance of small group communication, noting that it is essential for communicating with and organizing groups of individuals as well as focusing them on common goals. It is important for leaders like coaches, professors, parents, and military leaders. While small group communication is widely accepted, there are criticisms of some techniques used, but abilities like Skype have increased opportunities for such communication, especially in business. Good communication skills in small groups are important for success in many endeavors.
This document discusses personal online reputation management (PORM). It emphasizes that people increasingly research others online through social media and search engines before meeting, hiring, or doing business with them. Therefore, it is important to curate one's online presence and control the narrative. The document provides 10 tips for being a "PORM star," including choosing an online identity, engaging with others online, maintaining consistency, and presenting an authentic self. The overall message is that one's online reputation affects real-world opportunities, so strategic reputation management is important.
For years we’ve viewed work-life balance as both an insurmountable challenge and an unreachable goal. The world of work has changed as our businesses are running 24/7, personal demands and stresses seem to grow, and every aspect of our lives is fueled by technology. We’re always ‘connected’ and we’re exhausted. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
In this session we develop an understanding of work-life integration and flexibility as we consider a revised definition, review the business and organizational benefits of flexibility, and explore an approach to work-life integration for personal success.
The world of work, and with it the function of the HR professional, is changing - dramatically. It's critical to pay attention to the changing world of work, the impact of technology, global connectivity and more in order to understand how all of this affects the human resources profession. As the role of the HR professional has evolved so too have the necessary skills and competencies required to keep HR relevant.
Generation Y Paradigms of Work and Leadership | 2014 Global Leadership SummitLondon Business School
Since 2009, London Business School has been issuing a survey to the participants of our executive education open enrollment Emerging Leaders Programme, asking their attitudes toward work, employee engagement, and leadership paradigms.
Adam Kingl and Richard Hytner presented the results of the survey and their conclusions on working with generation Y at London Business School's flagship event, the Global Leadership Summit.
Learn more about what happened at #2014GLS: http://bit.ly/1tI2kNn
Learn more about the Global Leadership Summit: http://gls.london.edu
The document provides an overview of Abid Khan's career journey and advice for young people. It discusses Khan's upbringing, education including GCSE results, and various qualifications and roles in business and finance. It also touches on defining success, developing skills, goals for the next 5-10 years, and challenges facing today's youth like increased competition and automation. Khan emphasizes the importance of knowing yourself, adapting to change, and having a "winning mindset" focused on growth.
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2. 650m professionals worldwide (1)
75% plan on changing career within 5 years (2)
60% are not truly engaged in what they do (3)
54% would like to start a business (4)
50% want to take a career break (5)
Sources: 1) LinkedIn 2) Fresh Business thinking.com 3) Towers Perrin/Gallup 4) Kauffman Foundation 5) EuPWN Thinktank
3. No longer
- 1 Job, 1 Career, 1 City,
- 1 Path to Success