Leadership • 2 min read CPO Burnout Cold take: most of the CPOs I know are unhappy, frustrated, burnt out. (My selection bias: mostly B2B/enterprise, primarily…
Organizations • 4 min read Coalition-Building and Corporate Anthropology As product managers, we’re trained to talk about benefits with customers/ prospects rather than features. How will this product…
systemsthinking • 3 min read Every System Has a Bottleneck Software architects know that every system has a bottleneck. Imagine an analytics app where the slowest step is uploading massive…
careers • 2 min read Moving Up to Product Director In a course I’m running on moving up the product management organizational ladder, we’ve spent time comparing/contrasting…
Leadership • 1 min read Money Talks: Aligning Product Strategy + Business Goals I was thrilled to join ITX's Product Momentum podcast for an episode called "Money Talks: Aligning Product…
Organizations • 9 min read In Scope for My Role? Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do…
analytics • 1 min read Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth And Revenue I joined the Heap.IO product team for a podcast on "Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth and Revenue&…
collaboration • 4 min read Being Empathetic In the middle of a CPO coaching session last week, I recalled the passing of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobelist who…
• 1 min read Podcast: More 2 Marketing I joined Susan Walsh on her More 2 Marketing podcast, where we had an hour-long conversation around: * project funding vs.…
• 1 min read Videocast: Product Leader's Journey I joined Rahul Abhyankar on his Product Leader's Journey videocast. We talked at length about * What Go-to-Market teams…
• 1 min read Videocast: Steve Johnson & Grant Hunter (Product Growth Leaders) I joined Grant Hunter and Steve Johnson for a livestreamed Product Conversation. Give it a listen. We had a lively,…
Economics • 6 min read Count The Digits One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.” It’s a…