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Smartcuts Accelerating Success

on YouTube 23m
Talkat DLDwomen 2014 · 2014-07-29..07-30· [career-development, product-management]

speaker

name:Shane Snow
bluesky:shanesnow.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/PaYM0-VXCWE
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that rapid success comes from lateral moves — not longer slogging up one ladder — and offers concrete patterns: hacking the ladder via small wins and sideways pivots, a bigger-or-better parlay trade-up game that converts tiny wins into big assets, and readying assets before lightning strikes. Cites data: average Fortune 500 CEO path ~30 years versus lateral hires like Marissa Mayer; viral cases — Michelle Phan’s 30M-view video leads to Sephora/L’Oréal deals, production company and hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers; job switches lift pay 10–20% vs 1–3% staying.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 1:19Who do you pick?
  3. 5:17Patterns Smartcuts
  4. 21:42Lateral thinking

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