Andrew Skotzko has started a product podcast called ENLIVEN. He asked me to join for this episode on “creating a thriving product organization.”
We had a wide-ranging conversation about:
- Common product/company failure modes
- Becoming a product leader, and what to do in your first month on the job
- Conditions that enable product teams to be their best (“Teams that don’t finish anything quit”, “Caring is probably the #1 most important feature I see in engineering teams that get a lot of really good stuff done”)
- Making it OK to hear truth and speak truth
- Impostor syndrome & internalizing issues