Org Design
I'm sensing a rising readiness to get back to growth, in the historic ways that people build, collaborate, and buy, an escape from click-chasing, clout-chasing, scale-chasing, and all that goes in its wake. The good news, the phenomenal news, is there is a way forward
Value Creation
This episode is about why nice people get ghosted. Why saying "yeah, I can do that" on a sales call is a death trap. And why you're burning trust all the while they are telling you how much they like you...
Community
We will need leaders who have done the work to be oriented to expansion. So many leaders are in reaction or contraction. Or defense. But expansion, opening up the capacious places so that new things can grow, is the only way we can move forward together.
Big Tech enters its pivot era (Don't call it a comeback) and expects the world to say, "Cool, seems fine. You definitely know what you're doing." How not to do that.
Positioning
It's another case of Marketers Ruin Everything™ as my colleague Lynn Swayze says. Marketing people are grabbing on to "trust" and dragging it by its tail through the savannah... let's discuss.
Culture
Two critical and growing teams in this game of an economy we are playing, aren't getting what they need: Founders and Fractionals.
Value Creation
A sh*tstorm of news from the AI front has settled in, raising the stakes on the fate of the universe, curing cancer, CEO avatars, and AI models so fearsome they dare not be mentioned. What's a CEO to do?
Culture
This episode is what real venture change actually asks of you, and why it's not therapy, even when it feels like it. It's about why your marketing problem is almost never just a marketing problem. And it's about the only two things I've ever seen consistently move leaders forward.
Leaders are not being honest with themselves about the degradation of self-trust. They are being hollowed out by the sparkling lights of the online attention casino, extracting more and more from them with every click. I see it everywhere.
Positioning
The long list of things outside your control feels like it keeps getting longer. The question is, how do you keep that chaos outside, so you can make strategic, trust-made, growth decisions on the inside? Surprisingly, this has everything to do with how you think about AI.
Super Show Notes for Episode 2.03 of Damns Given Podcast Guest: Amy Carrillo Cotten Amy Carrillo Cotten is a technologist and Director of Transformation who grew up with a whiteboard in her kitchen and thought it was normal. She works at the intersection of engineering organizations and the humans
Culture
Mistakes have been made by attributing the current economic standstill to AI. This degradation is generational. Trying to build a world of shortcuts, not solutions. Vibes, not value. Without a dramatic change in course, it will be the legacy we leave to the world.
