PRODUCTEA with Leah, Growth & Senior Leadership

32: Shanee Ben-Zur, Lessons from senior growth leadership

Aug 5, 2023

Shanee Ben-Zur, Senior growth leader at top brands like DropBox, NVIDIA, Crunchbase, and Salesforce, discusses misconceptions in virtual meetings, challenges faced in the tech industry, taking unconventional career paths, the importance of role models in the workplace, the structure and organization of growth teams, and the importance of compliments and constructive feedback.

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Shanee Ben-Zur

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Quick takeaways

Trusting your instincts and going with the flow is crucial in navigating a successful career journey.

Building a culture of experimentation, transparency, and continuous learning is key to driving growth in organizations.

Creating a data-driven culture that values impact over execution is vital for making informed decisions and driving growth.

Deep dives

Navigating Career Opportunities and Trusting Your Gut

The speaker discusses their career journey, highlighting the importance of going with the flow and trusting one's instincts when pursuing various opportunities.

Introduction

2min

Misconceptions in Virtual Meetings

21min

Love for Trees and Challenges Faced in the Tech Industry

3min

Taking Unconventional Career Paths and Following Your Gut

3min

The Importance of Role Models in the Workplace

10min

Structure and Organization of Growth Teams

7min

The Importance of Compliments and Constructive Feedback

8min

Season 2 of the ProducTea! Today with the growth wonder Shanee Ben-Zur, her unconventional career path into senior leadership at top brands like DropBox, NVIDIA, Crunchbase, and Salesforce, and her honest account for what happened to make her what she is today.
A compassionate C-level that says things as they are. We talk about how an IPO feels. Equity, reality, and the perception of senior leadership don’t always line up. And the fastest way how to mess things up when you start to lead people.

Timestamps:

03:20 What do people get wrong about Shanee
5:45 The IPO story from Dropbox from the inside
12:35 Equity: Understand how it works and keep asking until you do
15:45 The brutal reality vs Imagination of senior leadership positions
21:50 Operative vs Management vs Advising, when people stop questioning
24:20 Obstacles and difficulties in an atypical career in tech
32:30 How to learn trusting yourself to be a senior leader
40:40 Bringing growth and measurability into any company and all the difficulty that entails
44:55 You are not talking enough about first principles
48:13 Underestimating how critique and compliments work
51:30 Trends Shanee believes in, efficiency in the long-term vs short-term hacks

Shanee’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbenzur/
Leah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahtharin/

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