The document outlines five strategies for managing high potential personnel (HPPs): prioritizing education, defining organizational roles, providing regular data updates to executives, fostering a safe environment for experimentation, and using effective communication. It emphasizes the critical need for technical literacy among corporate leadership to navigate current challenges. The importance of adaptable leadership and continuous learning is highlighted in today's rapidly changing technological landscape.

1. 5 ways to
tackle a HPPO

7. 5 useful HPPO-wrangling tactics
1. Get education on the agenda.
2. Define the swim lanes for organization and product.
3. Feed your executive team a regular, manageable data
diet.
4. Create a safe space for experimentation.
5. Language matters: speak so you can be heard.

8. EDUCATION

9. Education tactics checklist
❏ Workshops to drive understanding and alignment
around Product strategy (and ongoing visibility)
❏ Progress stories for executives to understand, own,
and share
❏ Reverse mentoring programs

10. SWIM LANES

11. DATA DIET

12. EXPERIMENTS

14. EXPERIMENTLANGUAGE

15. Once more: useful HPPO-wrangling tactics
1. Get education on the agenda.
2. Define the swim lanes for organization and product.
3. Feed your executive team a regular, manageable data
diet.
4. Create a safe space for experimentation.
5. Language matters: speak so you can be heard.

16. There isn’t a company today that can survive without
technical leadership in the C-suite, and yet, we still see
an astonishing lack of awareness about the internet
and its potential from corporate executives. ...
Changing times require adaptable leaders, and today
those leaders need tech literacy just as much as our
grade-school children do. It’s the only way leadership
can move forward today.
We’re living in the in-between now
-- Danny Crichton, for TechCrunch

18. THANK YOU
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