Mea Culpa
I don't always get it right. I complain about glossy war stories and universal product operating models, but…
Leadership
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Product Momentum podcast: Money Stories
ITX Corp. just released their latest Product Momentum podcast with me as the appreciative guest: “Using Money Stories To Communicate…
MONEY STORIES
Communicating the Value of Product Work
DON’T BRING A BACKLOG TO A GUNFIGHT!
Product managers talk about features. Executives…
Earning Our Keep
(this is an excerpt from my upcoming book on Money Stories)
As CPOs or product leaders, we often have conversations with CEOs about Return On Investment, which come in two wildly different contexts.…
Money Stories @ Productized (video)
Video of my 17 Oct 25 talk at PRODUCTIZED Lisbon: "business cases are stories about money"
I unpacked…
The Challenge Of Selling Care & Feeding Investments to Money-Side Executives
I've been writing and speaking and workshopping a lot about Money Stories (here, here, here): the very simple…
Practicing the Language of Money (Video)
This talk is from Product Management Festival in Zurich (November 2025), part of a product-meets-finance track. A version of my…
Some Missing AI Money Stories
I was part of a business-meets-product track at PMF Zurich last week with Simonetta Batteiger, Felicity "Flick" Harding…
Answering Next Year's Revenue Growth Question...
Marc Baselga captured part of discussion I had last week with a Supra leadership group, so copying his transcript/my…
Product Mastery Podcast: Building Influence as a Product Leader
Dr. Chad McAllister brought me onto his long-running podcast to talk about top challenges for product leaders and their broader…
Are Your Executives Really Interested In The Craft Of Product Management? (discussion)
I joined Shardul Mehta for a live chat on 18 Sept, where we unpacked a core PM assumption: are our…
I Believe in Interim CPO Roles, But Not in Fractional CPO Roles
I've been an interim CPO 15 times, more than almost anyone else, and have mentored scores of CPOs…