March Resource Roundup

On the heels of Design Leadership Camp Santa Fe and Biz Dev Camp at Viget, this month’s resource roundup is full of recommended resources for design, leadership, business development and sales. We also have a long list of articles and podcasts to work through as you find a few minutes here or there, or to while on your commute. Thank you to everyone in the community who shared!

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Reads & Resources for Design Leaders

• Becoming a Design Leader

• Design Principles

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

• So Your Boss Doesn’t Believe in Design Research

• Laura Martini: Growing Through Startups, Landing at Google

• A Prototype Should Not be a Minimum Viable Product

• Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity & the Power of Change by Beth Comstock & Tahl Raz

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

• The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky

• InVision: DesignOps Handbook

• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono & the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

• Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever You Are

• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang 

• Atlassian Team Playbook

• Drive by Daniel Pink

• To Show Recognition, Try Speaking a Different Language

• Design Leadership Favorites

• Value-Based Design

Biz Dev & Sales Books

• The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline & Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales by Trish Bertuzzi

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne

• Buying Less for Less: How to Avoid the Marketing Procurement Dilemma by Gerry Preece & Russel Wohlwerth

Business Development Tools

• CRM: Pipedrive, Copper, Insightly, HubSpot CRM, Salesforce

• Customer Insights: Crystal, Conduit, UpHabit, Revere, Pearlfinders

• Technology: BuiltWith

• Email: Mixmax, Yesware

• Video pitching via Email: Loom, Vidyard

• Scheduling: Calendly

• Proposals & Contracts: Proposify, PandaDoc, HelloSign, RightSignature

• Marketing: CoSchedule

• Voice Notes: Otter

• Lead Generation: Lead Forensics, Sales Schema

Accessibility, Usability, QA & Hosting

• Digital Accessibility Consulting & Training: Knowbility

• Usability Test Plan Template

• QA & Testing: Plus QA, Testing4Success, PQA Testing

• Managed WordPress Hosting: WP Engine, Cloudways, Pantheon, Pagely, Liquid Web

Tools for Sites & Asset Management

• Digital Asset Management: Webdam, MediaValet, NetX, Brandfolder

• Placeholder Lorem Ipsum Generator: Boom

• Tools for Micro Interactions: Haiku, Flow, Tumult Hype

• Website Optimization: Crazy Egg

• WordPress Page Builder: Beaver Builder

Tools for Teams

• Performance & Engagement: 15Five, Lattice

• Project & Team Accountability: Range

Worth the Read, Listen or Watch

• Eight Important Gauges On Your Financial Dashboard

• Why Documentation Is Important

• Hiring for Sales: Fuzzy Math & Four Letter Words…

• Human Made: Client Handbook

• How Project Managers Can Wear a Business Development Hat

• What is EOS?

• A Beginner's Guide to Negotiating

• Assume Positive Intent

• Why Onboarding May Be More Important than Hiring

• How to Design the End of a Studio’s Life

• The Human Side of Agile Delivery

• We Can Do Better

• For Development Teams, It’s Time to Throw out the Open-Office Plan

• The Tech Internship Toolkit

• Leading Smart People

• Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done by Brett Harned

• Finding My Power in PM

• Digital Project Management: The Lifeblood of Your Agency

• A Guide to Better Designer Client Relationships

• No Slack on Weekends: Agencies Look for Ways to Tackle Employee Burnout

• Erik Spiekermann: No Free Pitches

• Why Naval Ravikant Thinks Remote Work Is The Future

• The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand by Darrell Mullis & Judith Orloff

Add to Cart

• Air quality: Awair

• Digital Canvas: Meural

Podcasts

• The Bureau Briefing

• Build a Better Agency

• The Digital Agency Show

• The Agency Profit Podcast

• The Smart Agency Master Class

• THRIVE

• a16z

• All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tv

• Base.cs Podcast

• Bit v. Byte

• Bootstrapped

• Coding Blocks

• CTO Think

• Design Better

• Developer Hustle

• devMode.fm

• Front End Happy Hour

• Full Stack Radio

• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

• JAMstack Radio

• JS Party

• Layout

• Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

• Mozilla Security Bytes

• Recode Media with Peter Kafka

• Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher

• Smashing Security

• ShopTalk

• Static Bits

• Sprints & Milestones

• Syntax—Tasty Web Development Treats

• The 6 Figure Developer Podcast

• The Big Web Show

• The Boagworld UX Show

• The Changelog

• The Information's 411

• The New Stack Context

• The Official Vue News

• The Undefined Podcast

• The Web Platform Podcast

• The Webby Podcast

• This Week in Google 

• This Week in Startups

• Track Changes

• 99% Invisible

• Coaching for Leaders

• Reply All

• Happy Porch Radio

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