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Cross-train: Business vs. creativity

Cross-train: Business vs. creativity

From the course: Web Career Clinic

Cross-train: Business vs. creativity

- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Lauren Bacon, and welcome to this week's edition of the Web Career Clinic where I'll explore how to build a career you love making good stuff on the web. My last two cross-training segments were about helping designers and coders to better understand each other's perspectives. Today I'll be talking about the business side of things, and really this episode is aimed at helping you to be stronger in two areas. First, collaborating with team members who have different roles than you. Particularly those in marketing, operations, customer service, sales and so on. And second, developing skills that will make you incredibly valuable and boost your career, because if you can combine your technical and creative skills with a strong sensibility for business, you'll find that a lot of doors will open to you that might not otherwise. If you watched either of the first two cross-training videos, you may have noticed that I've been focusing not so much on hard skills, but on…

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