Organizations • 1 min read Product Mastery Podcast: Building Influence as a Product Leader Dr. Chad McAllister brought me onto his long-running podcast to talk about top challenges for product leaders and their broader…
Leadership • 1 min read Are Your Executives Really Interested In The Craft Of Product Management? (discussion) I joined Shardul Mehta for a live chat on 18 Sept, where we unpacked a core PM assumption: are our…
Leadership • 4 min read I Believe in Interim CPO Roles, But Not in Fractional CPO Roles I've been an interim CPO 15 times, more than almost anyone else, and have mentored scores of CPOs…
Language of Money • 8 min read Finishing Our (Money) Sentences For a long time, I've been asserting that most* B2B revenue-side executives can't hear anything we…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: AI, Leadership, Career Ladders Thrilled to share a wide-ranging recent conversation with Marc Baselga & Ben Erez on their Supra Insider podcast! We went…
Leadership • 7 min read What We Fight For At a recent Product Weekend gathering of CPOs, we talked about product leadership values and what lifts our hearts. That…
throughput • 8 min read Bottlenecks, AI, and Where Product Adds Value I'm still somewhat of a skeptic about "replace our developers and product managers with AI" discussions…
Leadership • 4 min read “Politics” In most of my CPO coaching engagements, we eventually come around to the problem of “politics,” usually framed as frustration…
Pricing • 1 min read Pricing Podcast with Mark Stiving Mark Stiving has been a thought leader on software pricing nearly forever. He generously invited me onto his Impact Pricing…
Language of Money • 8 min read ROI: Seductive but of Limited Value in Product Planning I’m part of many discussions where tech company execs try to apply Return on Investment (ROI) tools to make…
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:…