This episode is from Drive 2024, our first-ever in-person event for B2B marketers in Burlington, Vermont. Dave hosts a marketing leadership panel with Peter Mahoney, CCO of GoTo, Tara Robertson, CMO at Bitly, and Amrita Mathur, Head of Marketing at Zapier. These marketing leaders open up about their experiences and share actionable advice to help you lead, manage, and set goals for your marketing team. Dave, Peter, Tara, and Amrita cover:Why business literacy is so important for marketing leadersHow to set goals for your marketing teamEach panelists biggest career risks — what worked, and what did notPractical frameworks for managing short-term demands while staying committed to long-term goalsTimestamps(00:00) - - Intro to Peter, Amrita, and Tara (06:35) - - One Piece of Advice for Marketing Leaders (14:03) - - How to Set Goals For Your Team (23:14) - - Framework for Short-Term vs Long-Term Pipeline Goals (25:48) - - Budgeting for Short-Term vs Long-Term Goals (28:18) - - How to Work with a Difficult Counterpart (30:41) - - Panelists’ Biggest Career Risk That Worked (34:26) - - Panelists’ Biggest Career Risk That Did NOT Work (37:02) - - How to Lead your Team When You’re in a Leadership Rut (45:23) - - How to Navigate a New Leadership Role (48:47) - - Making Uncomfortable Decisions as a Leader (52:00) - - Does CEO = CMO? (53:43) - - When to Reconsider Your Strategy (57:08) - - Closing Remarks Join 50,0000 people who get our Exit Five Newsletter here: https://www.exitfive.com/newsletterLearn more about Exit Five's private marketing community: https://www.exitfive.com/***Today's episode is brought to you by Knak.Email (in my humble opinion) is the still the greatest marketing channel of all-time.It’s the only way you can truly “own” your audience.But when it comes to building the emails - if you’ve ever tried building an email in an enterprise marketing automation platform, you know how painful it can be. Templates are too rigid, editing code can break things and the whole process just takes forever. That’s why we love Knak here at Exit Five. Knak a no-code email platform that makes it easy to create on-brand, high-performing emails - without the bottlenecks.Frustrated by clunky email builders? You need Knak.Tired of ‘hoping’ the email you sent looks good across all devices? Just test in Knak first.Big team making it hard to collaborate and get approvals? Definitely Knak.And the best part? Everything takes a fraction of the time.See Knak in action at knak.com/exit-five. Or just let them know you heard about Knak on Exit Five.***Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.Get unlimited podcast editing and on-demand strategy for one low monthly cost. Just upload your episode, and they take care of the rest.Visit hatch.fm to learn more