Chris MessinaCompensation Showdown: Why Ecosystem Teams Struggle to Find Their North Star (Pt 1)After a brief break to explore related topics and conduct our first full Thrum meeting, I’m excited to get back to discussing the…Sep 25Sep 25
Chris MessinaBurning the Ships: My Journey to Building ThrumThe past few weeks have been a blur. I got hit with a nasty case of norovirus that knocked me out for several days, which, of course, led…Sep 10Sep 10
Chris MessinaThe Problem With B2B Partner Ecosystems Volume 3: Understanding Why the “Partner Paradox” ExistsNote: This is the third in a series of weekly (ish) essays exploring the challenges and nuances of B2B partner ecosystems. Each article…Aug 12Aug 12
Chris MessinaThe Problem With B2B Partner Ecosystems Volume 2: The Non-Linear Nature of Ecosystem OrgsNote: This is the second in a series of weekly (ish) essays exploring the challenges and nuances of B2B partner ecosystems. Each article…Aug 1Aug 1
Chris MessinaThe Problem With B2B Partner Ecosystems Volume 1: “Believe Me, It’s Working…”Note: This is the first in a series of weekly (ish) essays exploring the challenges and nuances of B2B partner ecosystems. Each article…Jul 29Jul 29
Chris MessinaMaking Chicken Salad Out of Chicken S***: When Partnership Expectations Don’t Match RealityIn 2017 I was hired by ABM market leader and pioneer Madison Logic to launch an Ecosystem Organization. Barely a month in, we had an…Oct 14, 20221Oct 14, 20221
Chris MessinaA Foundational Philosophy for Partner Orgs: Your Company’s ‘Green Berets’The modern Partner/Ecosystem organization has been in existence for less than two decades and has only been recognized as a critical…Sep 6, 2022Sep 6, 2022
Chris Messina“The Fittest Guy I Know”… The Story of How Mental Health and Identity Issues Almost Killed MeOn July 21st of this year, I almost died. Suffering from profuse bilateral and saddle pulmonary embolisms (PE), I was on a one-way train…Nov 2, 20211Nov 2, 20211
Chris MessinaThe Way Forward: My Story of Policing In America Part 3This last installment of my story of policing in America is still based on my experience but is more forward-looking and is my attempt to…Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
