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…
product leadeship • 1 min read Productized Podcast: Speed <> Value ✅ How to focus on the right things instead of just more things ✅ Navigating the tension between sales targets and product…
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…
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:…
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…