Leadership • 5 min read Merchandizing Product Management It’s pretty easy to tell if Sales is hitting its goals. (“Are we on track to hit this quarter’…
Innovation • 1 min read Podcast: Why Finding Insights is So Painful Rachel Obstler, VP Product at Heap, invited me in for a two-part conversation on her Product Therapy podcast. This is…
Leadership • 6 min read How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray I often have conversations with CEOs of software companies or software-powered (ecommerce) companies who aren’t steeped in how software…
Leadership • 7 min read Difficult Product Discussions with CEOs I’m sometimes pulled into difficult discussions with CEOs, where I’m trying to describe systematic product-side failures that directly…
Leadership • 1 min read AMA on Working with Sales and Executives Rich joined Product Tank Des Moines/Ames [https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Des-Moines-Ames/] for an “Ask Me Anything” session on working…
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…
Innovation • 6 min read We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
Leadership • 1 min read Managing Misaligned Stakeholders (Mind The Product APAC) Event: Mind The Product/Digital APAC [https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/singapore/] Rich’s topic: Dealing with Misaligned Stakeholders (and…
Innovation • 4 min read Prioritization Beyond Algorithms The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with product leaders, and in almost every product…
• 1 min read What Product Leaders Do (Cape Town) Topic: “What Product Leaders Do“ Hosted by: Cape Town Product Meetup When: March 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product management is a complex…
Product Management • 1 min read My Stories Aren’t Long Enough… (Product Camp Cascadia) What: ProductCamp Cascadia When: March 5/6 ProductCamp is a peer-driven conference that brings together passionate Product Managers and Product…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Workplace Confessions Product Collective [https://productcollective.com/]‘s Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca have turned season 10 of their Rocketship.FM podcast:…