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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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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.

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. The software that BlackLine builds and markets, helps people with the close process, instead of doing it in Excel. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Are you going to do all of this?