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Fire Yourself — a multi-year process of self-renewal
Self-reflection is a difficult skill. If you’re struggling with an honest reflection of your (work) life, start here: fire yourself. Seriously, act as if you just fired yourself from your role. Now what do you do? In 2016 I listened to a podcast episode titled Fire Yourself. It changed my perspective. The key difference was I could…
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Focus and Meeting Time
I don’t recall being a person who “hates meetings”. In fact, early on in my career I sometimes leaned toward joining meetings because I was in the camp who believed that’s where the “important stuff happened.” Now that my calendar is full of meetings and, within the Covid-era, we have even more meetings, I’m actively focused on eliminating, shortening,…
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PROVE Value to Your Customers
Visibility into customer accounts always seemed to the “holy grail” of Customer Success. While a fully-fledged Customer Health Score can require years of work and refinement, here are some ways to get started and finding value in 1-2 months (or less!). My company recently completed the first version of our Account Health Scoring methodology (more…
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You Are Building a Case Study
“You are building a case study here.” My boss told me this early in my time at GitLab. I’ve turned it over many times since. On the surface it sounds like encouragement. Look closer and it’s a warning. We didn’t hire you to run the playbook you ran somewhere else. We hired you because you…
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Copy + Paste Proliferation
Early on, I learned this magical set of features where I could take existing material, copy it, and then paste it to whatever degree required. That doesn’t sound that magical today, especially compared to augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), or self driving cars! However, it’s foundational. Without that simple set of tools (cut, copy,…
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Jeff Beaumont 