Rebel Intrapreneur Bill Cushard

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In one Linkedin post, Nils Davis showed me how my resume (all of ours) should tell the story I want the hiring manager to know. Primarily that I am the role they are looking for. 
Let’s face it, we have 6-10 seconds to get the hiring manager to know we are the one for them. 
How?
Redesign our summary section. 
Nils suggests the following format: 
* I am a …
* I have …
* I have a reputation for …
This seems one heck of a lot better than a summary section with a bullet point list of skills. 
Rebel Intrapreneurs are good at positioning themselves in their areas of expertise and selling themselves and their ideas. Nils and I discuss the importance of treating our resume as a sales letter. 
More about Nils Davis: 
His Linkedin post that we talked about 
Nils Davis on Linkedin 
The Perfect PM Resume
The Secrets of Product Management Podcast 
His Book: The Secret Product Manager Handbook 
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More about Bill:
Bill Cushard on Linkedin
Bill Cushard on Twitter
Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website
Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence 
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People join startups thinking they will strike it rich, but successful startup opportunities like this are the exception, not the rule. As Gus Bessalel, author of “The Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward,” tells me on Rebel Intrapreneur, “Don’t go into a startup, thinking you’re going to become an instant millionaire. You go into startups because of all of the experiences that you gain from being in that environment.” 
Startups are intense. And it takes a certain personality type and risk profile to make the experience of working at a startup worthwhile. 
Bessalel wrote The Startup Lottery to help Rebel Intrapreneurs like us evaluate start up opportunities. The evaluation has essentially three parts: 
A self evaluation: Should I work for a startup? 
A financial evaluation: What will it take for my equity to pay off? 
A progress evaluation: Should I stay or have this startup? 
A Rebel Intrapreneur should put all of these parts together before deciding on joining any startup. Bessalel’s book will help us do that. 
I learned a lot from reading The Startup Lottery and my conversation with Gus. I hope you find it useful. 
More about Gus Bessalel: 
Gus Bessalel’s book, The Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward
On Linkedin
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More about Bill:
Bill Cushard on Linkedin
Bill Cushard on Twitter
Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website
Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence 
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I admit that I do not have a codified set of core beliefs, values, principles, or whatever else you want to call them. I know that I should have them, but I don’t. It’s something I’ve procrastinated. Successful people I know have told me that they procrastinated it too, but when they finally put in the work to write out their core beliefs, everything changed for the better. 
So when I had the opportunity to talk to Robyn Bolton, founder & chief navigator at MileZero, about innovation, I wanted to spend time talking about her 5 core beliefs because her short list says a ton about how she views innovation and how she helps her clients do great things. 
Robyn Bolton’s 5 core beliefs: 
* Innovation is something different that creates value.
* Innovation requires curiosity, courage, and commitment.
* Any organization can innovate, and any person can be an innovator.
* People (even your customers and your boss) decide with their hearts and justify with their heads.
* Ideas are a dime a dozen. Decisions are priceless. Action is perfection. 
To me, this list tells me much of what I need to know about Robyn and her innovation approach. 
The lesson here for Rebel Intrapreneurs (and me personally) is this: written core beliefs clarify what we think about a topic and how we approach it. All of us should write down our core beliefs. 
More about Robyn Bolton: 
Robyn’s 5 Core Beliefs
Her company, MileZero
Robyn’s Innovation Assessment
The Adobe Kickbox story blog
On Linkedin
On X 
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More about Bill:
Bill Cushard on Linkedin
Bill Cushard on Twitter
Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website
Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence 
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When most of us hear “Chief of Staff,” we think of the president’s chief of staff. We think of that role as a government (or public sector) role. That might have been true in the olden days, but the chief of staff has been growing in the private sector, especially in tech companies. 
As I am writing this, I searched job listings on Linkedin and found 626 openings for chiefs of staff. 
I don’t know about you, but it’s blowing my mind. 
It looks like a perfect role for rebel intrapreneurs who want to make an outsized contribution to an organization. I think to myself, “Where has this role been my whole life?” 
I had to learn more. 
Then I discovered Emily Sander. She has been a chief of staff. She coaches chiefs of staff. And she wrote the book on chiefs of staff.  
After reading Emily’s book and talking to her, I am coming to believe that the chief of staff role is made for Rebel Intrapreneurs like us. 
After you listen to this conversation, I wonder if you agree. 
More about Emily Sander: 
Her book: An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff: Why You Need One and How to Be a Great One
Her company: Next Level Coaching
Her podcast: Leveraging Leadership
On Linkedin
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More about Bill:
Bill Cushard on Linkedin
Bill Cushard on Twitter
Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website
Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence 
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Anytime someone comes to us at the Rebel Intrapreneur podcast using the term non-traditional, our ears stand up. Our guest today is no different.
Lori Sussle Bonanni is the founder of elssus, a multi-disciplinary communications consultancy. She is also a self-described non-traditional publicist. She helps her clients go beyond press releases about announcements and launches and helps them communicate with their ideal customers in a more sustainable way. 
In this episode we talked about: 
* Lori’s rebel intrapreneur career journey in communications 
* The career transitions she made across multiple disciplines and how she did it
* Starting her own company
* Lesson about sustaining communications to our markets and ideal customers beyond our launches and announcements
And no…it is not OK to find a press release template from a Google search, alter the company name and middle paragraph, and then send it out. 
That’s not gonna work. 
More about Lori Sussle Bonanni: 
Her company, elssus
Lori on Linkedin
Lori’s Ask Me Anything sessions
Need a plan but can execute on your own? Lori has you covered
Lori speaking engagements
Lori’s Funding Announcement servicesLori can ghostwrite for you
All of elssus services
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More about Bill:
Bill Cushard on Linkedin
Bill Cushard on Twitter
Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website
Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence 
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Atlassian just released a report based on over three years of its official location policy that says employees can choose where they work. They call it Team Anywhere. Atlassians, as people who work at Atlassian are known, have been able to choose to work from home, in one of their 12 global offices, a mix of both, or somewhere else entirely (within some stated parameters). 
This report documents Atlassian’s experience, results, and a copy of its location policy. 
In this episode, I share four main takeaways that Rebel Intrapreneurs can use to influence the cultures in their organizations.
Takeaway #1: The RTO crowd is analog native. The distributed crowd is digital native
Borrowing a concept from Christopher Lochhead, analog natives and digital natives have a fundamental difference in worldview. Analog natives want people to come back to the office because in-person means in the office. Digital natives don’t want to come back to the office because in person means any means by which people communicate with each other; online or off. 
The best example of this tension is manifested in a corporate video released by a company called Internet Brands, which is the parent company of WebMD. It is a video of the analog natives communicating with the digital natives and the conflict that has yet to be resolved.
Time will tell. 
Takeaway #2: As Atlassian says, teams are already distributed
Let’s face it, many companies and teams are already distributed and have been for a long time.  Companies like Accenture have largely been distributed for decades and have grown to multi-billion businesses. So the question is not, where do we get our best work done, but HOW!
Companies that prioritize where are fighting an inevitable wave washing distributed work architectures onto the beach.
Takeaway #3: We should also admit that it’s easier to be distributed when our product is digital 
It is difficult to work remotely when a company has factories and inventory and physical products and warehouses and retail stories. You cannot make or serve coffee remotely.
So let’s admit: For some types of businesses, distributed work works. For others it does not. 
Of course that does not mean digital product companies automatically choose remote work. Notion, which makes collaboration software, hires people (On-Site) and makes this clear in their job postings. Atlassian, which makes similar software, has distributed location policy. 
Different strokes for different folks.  
Takeaway #4: Rebel Intrapreneurs can use this report to both influence their company culture and to evaluate new work opportunities
How can a rebel intrapreneur use this report? I think of this in two ways:
* As a leader running teams and culture (distributed or centralized); AND
* As a high performing employee seeking places to work. 
As a leader running teams
Whether you work in a distributed workplace already or want to make the case for being more distributed, understanding the data in this report can help you 1) make your case for a distributed work culture; and 2) design a work culture that improves performance and engagement.  
As a rebel intrapreneur seeking a new opportunity
You can use this report, combined with your personal preferences, to analyze opportunities asking questions about flexibility, work culture, location policy, focus on where versus how work gets done, and how the company and the hiring manager operates its work culture. Rebel Intrapreneurs should look for contrasts between written company policies and what hiring managers say. 
A fundamental principle of the Rebel Intrapreneur is to further the mission of the organization. Finding a culture and mission to further is critical to our success. Use this Atlassian repo