Organizations • 5 min read What Do We Owe Our Teams? Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the…
Jobs • 7 min read Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell” I sometimes find product management teams composed entirely of first-timers, where not a single person has any previous experience as…
Jobs • 4 min read We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market Every CPO/VP Product I talk with is in a battle for product talent. It’s even harder than normal…
Mentor • 6 min read Exiting Gracefully Longevity for product executives is pretty short: typically between 2 and 2.5 years. So in the course of a…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Coaching With Heart One of my VP Product coachees raised a topic that comes up often:“I want to become a much better…
Jobs • 6 min read Delegation for Product Leaders A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to…
Leadership • 7 min read What Do Product Leaders Do? My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing…
Jobs • 5 min read The Product Leadership Career Ladder In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
Leadership • 5 min read 7 Ways to Know That You Need a Head of Product Over the last year or so, I’ve seen more than a dozen companies with a meta-product management problem that…
Jobs • 3 min read What Do Recruiters Look For in a Product Management Resume? (originally posted on Quora [https://www.quora.com/What-do-recruiters-look-for-in-a-resume-for-the-role-of-Product-Management/answer/Rich-Mironov] ) Q: What Do Recruiters Look For in a Product…
Jobs • 4 min read Eight Mistakes You’ll (Probably) Make in Your First Product Management Job Here are some mistakes that I expect most first-time product managers to make – even after coursework, certificates, and online tutorials.…
Leadership • 3 min read What Do Product Leaders Worry About? I spend much of my time with product leaders – folks who manage teams of product managers – including at a recent…