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Strategy & Business Ops leader, talking shop at sbohub.substack.com
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Reading Start up values and this is how I would summarise and critique: - ownership - but you get very very little equity - transparency - but not when the layoffs are about to happen - equity - but your HR doesn’t live up to it let alone the male leadership Get real, guys! Work 6 days but be real

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The problem with compromising your integrity is that it might you a battle, but it won't win you the war. Then your best leave. Then your customers leave. Then you need to pack up and leave. War>Battle

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Kleptocracy

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Spot the difference between European and US start ups: “I love what you do… 🇬🇧: “…can you now talk to three other people, and do a presentation, and a [insert random test that has nothing to do with the problem]” 🇺🇸: “…send us the terms of the engagement.” You just have to get on with it. ✌🏼😎

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Intuition needs to built, not imagined. #bizops #strategy #analytics #intuition

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Women like to banter more than you think 🤭😉

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You don’t have to have an opinion. You have to form an opinion. #truth #analytics #opinion

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Don't know if it is just me, but I don't find the doom and gloom of the tech industry about regulations particularly productive. 1) they forget the social contract 2) they make excuses for lack of creativity I outlined it all here... sbohub.substack.com/p/we-need-to... #bizops #regulation #tech

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

When start ups start taking down GlassDoor reviews (and yes, there are ways to do it), you know they lost the plot. Bow out and leave. #people #startup #entrepreneurship

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

What does every company on the planet have in common? Their pricing is not perfect. 🧯 Some are less perfect than others, ranging from minor revenue lost to total PR fiascos. How to be more right than not it? Follow the 10 steps: sbohub.substack.com/p/deep-dive-...

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Good morning, #London! Doing a walk today with a few tech Operators. Loving the conversation and Chatham House rules allowing for pure, unfiltered insight. Hmu if you want to take part in the next walk organized by the SBO Hub (find it on substack)

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Every year I pick a theme for personal growth. This year, the theme is to slow down - in a good way. Such that I can focus on the things that truly give me joy. Other #BizOps pros are also focusing on various key themes. Read about it here: sbohub.substack.com/p/the-2025-b...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

If you promote mediocrity, mediocrity is what you will get. #startup #HR

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. If you find yourself with a horse like that, sell it. #bizops

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Do more with less. But if you can enable your team to do more with less, those gains can be #exponential. #sbohub

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We should stop calling the work that keeps companies alive #BAU (Business as usual). It diminishes the value. Doesn't celebrate the contribution. In my view, it is #FoundationalWork. It is the work that keeps the lights on. The work that makes sure you have a business. #bizops

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As the year draws to a close, I am celebrating the top 5 #Strategy & #BizOps posts of the Hub. Cheers to 2024 and looking forward to more of this in the next chapter! 🥂 www.linkedin.com/posts/vesscl...

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Not sure who needs to hear this, but just because it is Black Friday, doesn’t mean you have to participate! 🙅🏻‍♀️🙈💸

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There are intelligent (⛳️ ) and not so intelligent (🚩) ways to criticise someone’s work. (⛳️): If someone finds a logical mishap in the work, and talks it through 1:1. 🙏🏻 -> the #bizops way (🚩): If someone calls the work “myopic”, but the objective for the work completely went over their head. 🪞

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"We need to simplify this because I'm uncomfortable and busy doing *big* *important* *things*" is the cosmic gaslighting move of 2024.

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments