Snow: Took two-month sabbatical so team would stop bypassing new CMO
Shane Snow · 1179 Why Co-Founder of $20m ARR Company Took Sabbatical to Write "Dream Teams" · Oct 16, 2018 · at 8:15
Shane Snow, co-founder of Contently, discusses delegating operational leadership and stepping aside to author Dream Teams.
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“So I realized that I was not the CMO that was going to take our company to the next step function. So I hired a replacement and after a month of getting her up to speed, I wanted people to stop going around me. And really for the mantle to fall on her. And so I took a two month sabbatical to kind of write for 14 hours a day and finish this book.”
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