public 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…
public 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…
public 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…
public 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/…
public Leadership • 2 min read CPO Burnout Cold take: most of the CPOs I know are unhappy, frustrated, burnt out. (My selection bias: mostly B2B/enterprise, primarily…
public Organizations • 4 min read 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…
public systemsthinking • 3 min read Every System Has a Bottleneck Software architects know that every system has a bottleneck. Imagine an analytics app where the slowest step is uploading massive…
public careers • 2 min read 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…
public Leadership • 1 min read Money Talks: Aligning Product Strategy + Business Goals I was thrilled to join ITX's Product Momentum podcast for an episode called "Money Talks: Aligning Product…
public Organizations • 9 min read 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…
public analytics • 1 min read Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth And Revenue I joined the Heap.IO product team for a podcast on "Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth and Revenue&…
public collaboration • 4 min read Being Empathetic In the middle of a CPO coaching session last week, I recalled the passing of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobelist who…