What are your guy's thoughts on building a simple software tool together for fun? This group has marketing, sales, and programmers.. that's a full house for any startup. The idea would be to build it fast (think record time) and post it for sale. We could use the money to have a party or do something fun 🥳.

I've been trying to find helpful ways to get software engineers into better roles, better opportunities, and make more money but I keep finding leaks in my bucket. there's a disconnect between my strategy and my execution. I'm disconnected between my vision and the way I communicate it. I love what I've been learning along the way. and I love the friendships I'm making here with you guys too. and I plan to lean into a topic I haven't spoken much about here yet - Strategic Partnerships and Joint Ventures (JVs). it's something I plan to learn more about and explore. I've also be involved in introducing some startups to very large orgs (1B -> 1T+ sized orgs) and want to explore what it's like to do that more often - but I have a lot to learn. If you're working for a company, this topic will benefit you in career growth as well since finding ways to partner with other people within your company will build your network. It will also help to improve your leadership, attention, communication, and collaboration (LACC). These are the four core pillars my community is built upon. Strategic partnerships and JVs are critical in business and most small businesses, even well-funded startups, do not take full advantage of them. Guess who DOES actively seek out strategic partnerships and JVs though - the big dogs. The large orgs know the power and insane growth potential of these structured relationships. why do you think they use them and smaller companies tend not to? oddly enough, even though small orgs benefit the most from these types of relationships since they tend to lack great distribution channels. here's why they don't use them: - smaller orgs either don't know about them - don't know how to do them well - or feel they don't have enough to offer someone else to create a strategic partnership. being able to thoroughly distribute a high-quality solution to a wide array of clients through an established org in the market short-cuts your biggest issue (not enough people not knowing about you)

Added a self-evaluation to test where you're at with your Executive Leadership Readiness level! make a copy, see where you're at and share your results! remember to use the link in the document to see what to do next based on the results you find after taking the eval. Executive Leadership Readiness Self-Eval

@Vladislav Van Wyk , you have been a massive contribution to this group! Vlad is the ideal person to work with. - He shows up every day - He sends me ideas of people who I could connect with on socials - He's introduced me to so many great people - He's introduced people to our community - He show up to the meetings every time - He welcomes everyone who comes in - He goes through the courses several times - He gives feedback on where we can improve - He likes posts - He comments - He creates posts - He asks questions Vlad - thank you for all the effort you put into helping make this place a warm, welcoming, helpful, and fun to be.

I'm sorry guys! Will need to postpone the coffee time for today.