Joe Mosely is VP of GTM Strategy and Operations at Coactive AI. Over more than a decade in go-to-market he led GTM strategy and demand generation at Okera up to its acquisition by Databricks, ran RevOps at Krisp, and earlier ran marketing strategy for Peter Diamandis. He contributes to the RevOps Co-op community and holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from San Francisco State University.
“Every time in the past that I have heard the idea of work-life balance or someone has suggested work-life balance to me, usually when I'm already underwater, my first thought is easier said than done.”
“It sounds like a destination, like there's this steady state that you arrive at where everything is weighted evenly and distributed, and everything is fine, but that's never usually the case.”
“When you're in a hole and someone's telling you that you need to get out of it, it's not really actionable advice.”
“What actually changed for me wasn't finding the balance. It was realizing that I'd been really trying to solve an energy problem with my calendar and the hours that I have in a day.”
“I was subconsciously making the decision to replace sleep with caffeine, to work evenings and weekends”
“She called me on it, and she said, 'I don't know that you will, because this has been a pattern.'”
“In RevOps, I think it is a lot more common for people to fail or to struggle, not because they're not working hard, but often because they over index on the wrong things.”
“It's a negative impact that I think builds slowly and silently, but consistently”