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Community-Led Growth: Equip the Champion

The salesperson is the designer inside the company — your job is to make them a superhero.

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Sales4 steps

Conversation-Intelligence Deal Diagnosis (the Dealbot)

Run an AI agent over every call, email and Slack to find the real reason you win, lose, and stall

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Sales3 steps

Discovery-Led Selling: Ask, Don't Pitch

Great salespeople talk under half the time and answer a question with a question about the question

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Mindset4 steps

False Positive Risk and the Replication Protocol

A p<0.05 win can be 26% likely false when idea success rates are low — replicate borderline results

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Forest Time

Schedule intentional monthly time to leave the trees and survey the forest — because good aim precedes huge investment.

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Marketing3 steps

Go-to-Market as a Product

Design the buying journey as a sequence of experiences, and add value at every touch whether or not they buy

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Leadership4 steps

Hiring on Skills, Attributes, and Values

Evaluate people in three dimensions — skills, attributes, and values — not skills alone, which is only ~50% predictive.

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Innovation4 steps

Incremental OFAT Over Big-Bang Redesign

Decompose big redesigns into one-factor-at-a-time tested steps because ~80% of ideas fail

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Leadership4 steps

Institutional Memory of Experiments

Capture wins, losses, and surprises so the org keeps learning instead of relaunching old ideas

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Leadership5 steps

Legibility, Actionability, Authenticity

Three tests any goal must pass, regardless of whether you call it an OKR.

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Productivity5 steps

Mandatory vs. Optional Onboarding Split

Split onboarding into a spare mandatory setup and a random-access optional layer — model the buyer's mind, not your features.

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Innovation5 steps

Manufactured Dogfooding

Invent internal reasons for every function to live in your product — quality follows hours logged.

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Strategy4 steps

Multi-Axis Revenue Segmentation

Plot customers on a graph of size plus the attributes that actually drive your revenue, not size alone

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Entrepreneurship5 steps

Picking a Sharp Problem

Build on a problem so acute customers spontaneously ask to pay — it becomes a tailwind that carries your mistakes.

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Finance3 steps

Price Like a Product (and Unbundle Deliberately)

Align price to where value and cost actually accrue, and kill defaulted freemium and mis-packed SKUs

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Strategy4 steps

Sample Ratio Mismatch (SRM) Validity Check

Verify your traffic split matches its design before trusting any experiment result

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Sales3 steps

Sell to Reduce Risk, Not Increase Upside

Four of five buyers buy to avoid pain or reduce risk — anchor the sale there, not on the art of the possible

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Communication5 steps

Synthesis-to-Meme Storytelling

Turn scattered inputs into one distilled idea leaders can repeat from memory in a meeting.

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Leadership3 steps

The 10-Minute PM Test for GTM-Product Partnership

Hire salespeople with enough product depth that engineers can't tell they aren't a PM

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Strategy4 steps

The 200K-User Experimentation Readiness Rule

Below ~200K users detect only big effects; use the wait to build platform and culture

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Strategy5 steps

The Balanced Feedback Portfolio

Treat every feedback channel as a biased sensor, then hold a portfolio so you have no blind spots.

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Leadership4 steps

The Compelled-to-Work-on-It PM Interview

Hire PMs by testing whether their story makes YOU want to go work on their boring old problem.

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Sales5 steps

The GTM Engineer Agent-Deployment Loop

Turn a sales function into an AI agent by shadowing your best rep, then redeploy the humans up-market

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Strategy4 steps

The Overall Evaluation Criterion (OEC)

Define one success metric with countervailing guardrails that predicts long-term lifetime value

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Leadership5 steps

The PM Owns the Why

Don't spec the what — distribute the why so hundreds of local decisions come out right.

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Strategy5 steps

The Three Modes of Customer Understanding

Separate targeted Discovery, always-on Continuous Conversations, and passive Customer Listening — each needs its own machinery.

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Innovation4 steps

The Zone of Benefit (3x Rule)

A product must make the customer at least 3x better before they notice enough to switch and pay.

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Mindset4 steps

Twyman's Law: Investigate the Too-Good-to-Be-True Result

Any surprising or extreme experiment result is probably wrong until you've hunted for the flaw

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Marketing5 steps

Virality as Customer-Augmented Marketing

Real virality is high-quality word of mouth from a great product — not synthetic referral traps bolted on top.

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Strategy5 steps

Where to Fish for a Unicorn: The Workflow Quadrant

Score a B2B SaaS idea on two axes — workflow breadth and frequency — to predict billion-dollar potential.

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