Business Cases Are Stories About Money
Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
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Podcast: Cross-Functional Soft Skills for Product Leaders
I joined Richard Chen of Product Gym [https://productgym.io/] for a podcast
about product management, soft skills, and understanding…
Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads
I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for
the last four years, which is suddenly…
Recognizing Longevity
During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and
cleaning out old office stuff when I…
Lying To Customers
I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Delegation for Product Leaders
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching
sessions: how much to delegate to…
Podcast: Product Leadership, Career Planning, and Getting Fired/Hired
What: Product404’s podcast, hosted by Kent Keirsey
Recorded: 14 April 2020
Length: 46 minutes
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Product404 [https://product404.org/] is…
Product In the Time of Cholera
I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…
Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit
A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise
I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs
they should choose. This is…
Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?
Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that are…
Podcast: Creating a Thriving Product Organization
Andrew Skotzko [https://andrewskotzko.com/] has started a product podcast called
ENLIVEN [https://andrewskotzko.com/podcast]. He asked me to…