Organizations • 1 min read No Nonsense Leadership (Podcast) Murray Robinson & Donna Spencer let me join their No Nonsense Leadership podcast for an extended discussion of corporate organizations,…
clarity • 7 min read Reading the Room / Knowing Your Audience I’ve written a lot about how we (as product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things:…
Leadership • 6 min read “When Will We Finish This Migration So R&D Teams Can Work On Innovation?” There’s a funny bit of split thinking that I often run into, and which came up in a recent…
Product Strategy • 8 min read Customization Debt There’s a pattern that I’ve seen at most B2B/enterprise software companies – and some B2C/mass consumer companies…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Joy in What We Do I joined Sheev co-founder Ben Maynard at Lisbon's Productized Conference for a podcast episode about my keynote talk…
• 1 min read Oct 2-4/Lisbon: Productized I'm thrilled to join the Productized team for their Lisbon conference on Oct 2-4. And to widen my…
fulfillment • 4 min read Where Do We Find Joy? I’ve coached scores of product leaders over the last few decades, and mentored hundreds of product managers… initial conversations…
Leadership • 1 min read "Business Cases are Stories about Money" (Video from Product@Heart) I joined an International all-star group of speakers and workshop leaders for Product at Heart in Hamburg on Sept 11-13.…
company strategy • 6 min read Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors In a conversation with Supra’s Marc Baselga and Ben Erez (podcast here), we touched on a core thesis of…
communications • 3 min read My Next Word to Retire is 'Prioritization' I’ve been studiously avoiding the term MVP (not the concept, but the acronym) since at least 2020, since it…
ai • 3 min read Fake (AI) Kindle Books Internal audiences, especially go-to-market execs at software companies, are demanding that we add visible AI features to our products – primarily…
ai • 4 min read Plausible vs Correct (AI) In our rush of AI optimism, I’m seeing some echoes of past over-reaches. 1. Personalizing/humanizing systems: using “he/…