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You’re not starting from scratch: How your transferable skills can help you get ahead in a new career

Intercom, Inc.

But after transitioning into tech, I realized that a lot of people who switch careers try to hide or at least diminish their previous professional experience as irrelevant. However, I am convinced that a lot of skills are perfectly transferable between careers, and can actually bring valuable perspectives and approaches to a new field.

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Celebrating Tony Hsieh's Contribution to CX

CX Accelerator

In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity. If you've not read his book, , Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, I highly recommend you add it to your reading list.”.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Celebrating Tony Hsieh's Contribution to CX

CX Accelerator

In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity. If you've not read his book, , Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, I highly recommend you add it to your reading list.”.

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10 Best Customer Experience Books

Lumoa

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic. I hold nothing back.

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Joseph Michelli: What’s the Purpose of Your Business?

Bill Quiseng

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Having had a long career in hospitality, I especially learned from Dr. Michelli’s The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

All the while, he’s been sharing his latest thoughts on infrastructure, devtools, management and more, on his Irrational Exuberance blog. Can you just give us a feel for what you’ve been doing in your career to date, as well as the work you’re doing today at Stripe? One of the blog posts was about this Yahoo!