CPO Burnout
Cold take: most of the CPOs I know are unhappy, frustrated, burnt out. (My selection bias: mostly B2B/enterprise, primarily…
Organizations
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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…
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…
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…
Being Empathetic
In the middle of a CPO coaching session last week, I recalled the passing of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobelist who…
Permission To Stay Focused
An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational…
Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy
Expanding on a recent post (Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product,…
Podcast: Speaking the Language of C-Level Execs (Money)
Margarida Cosme Pereira, with Lisbon's Productized conference, invited me to join their podcast for a wide-ranging discussion including:…
Moving from Services to Products
I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams
Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
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…
Podcast: How to Influence Executives
For his Innovation Talks podcast, Paul Heller and I had a wide-ranging discussion about how product management influences innovation and…