Coach CTO Hire Sales Services 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Another area we CEOs often meddle is in sales. I did this.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He looked stunned.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Equally each of your board members are probably on 5-10 boards. Rob is driven to learn. And improve.
socalTECH
MARCH 10, 2010
We've also hired a tremendous set of experience career counselors, who have had colorful or substantial careers, to supply services and products to our students. It looks like you bought an existing property as part of startup up the site? Robin Richards: We actually bought four companies, to get us started on this.
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