The Growth Leadership Show #6 - David Arnoux
The Essential Principles For A Successful Marketing Career
The Essential Principles For A Successful Marketing Career
David Arnoux is the co-founder and head of growth at GrowthTribe, Europe's first Academy focused on growth marketing. David is a marketing expert and serial entrepreneur, and throughout his career, he has helped more than 500 companies implement their growth strategies.
About the Guest
🤙 Street Cred: Co-Founder and Head of Growth at GrowthTribe, Europe's first Academy focused on growth marketing.
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The Episode in Its Full Glory ✨
đź§° Show Notes:
🍔 My Main Takeaways From This Episode
- It is possible to create major mindset shifts in your company from the bottom up. And mindset shifts are a prerequisite for genuine change and transformation.
- An obsessive focus on short-term goals will hurt you, your team and the organization you work for. If there is no motivating long-term vision to work towards, it becomes an aimless grind which prohibits creative breakthroughs.
- It’s vital to institutionalize check-ins with other departments in your company. Product, Sales and Customer Support are your friends. You can help them help you do a better a job and reach your joint goals more effectively.

In this episode, you'll learn more about:
- How Your Product Reflects the Way You See the World
- The Meta Skills of Successful Growth Leaders
- Mental Models for First Principle Thinking
- How to Better Understand What’s Happening in Other Departments
- Why Everyone is Just Winging It
- Moving Away From Short-Term Goals
- The Productivity Pyramid
- How You Can Change the Mindset of a Whole Company
- How to Stay Curious and a Lifelong Learner
- Employee Retention, and why it might not be that important
- Recommended Resources for Growing Your Marketing Career