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Build, Buy, or Wait: The Leader’s Guide to AI Adoption

How to build a scorecard to evaluate your well-being
New year, new you? Use Pedro Zuloaga's scorecard to evaluate your life and set measurable goals for improvement in 2023.

5 steps to grow customer lifetime customer value
Your customer relationship ending after the first transaction is similar to a romantic relationship ending after the first date: not good.

Every leader should have an operating manual. Here are 5 steps to build yours.
The things you do might be intuitive to you – but if they confuse your team, you're in trouble. Here's how to build an operating manual to make your decisions clear to everyone.

Want to be a better investor? Adopt these three mindsets
Think like an artist, an analyst, and a skeptic to make better decisions.

Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you?
Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).
In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.
Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.

How I use Product Strategy frameworks to win client business
How do you make your product stand out in a sea of competitors? Product Strategy alum Justin Lee shares his approach.

Which skills matter? Employees and L&D leaders don’t always agree [research]
Which skills matter in the modern workplace – to get promoted, to get ahead, to impact the business? It turns out that employees and learning leaders don’t always agree.
We recently surveyed 10,000 students and 250 learning leaders on the skills that are their biggest priority in 2023.

Want to build the next Airbnb? 4 steps to get started
Airbnb changed the way we travel without purchasing any hotels. Uber made it easier to get around without amassing their own fleet. And DoorDash took care of breakfast without cracking a single egg.
The common thread between these companies is that they’re platform businesses. Rather than selling products directly, they’re providing a platform that conveniently connects sellers and buyers.
How do you follow in their footsteps? Here are four steps that can help you build a platform of your own.