A Historical Take on the AI Boom
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - possibly Mark Twain
Last week, as part of Productized&…
Jobs
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Thoughts for In-The-Job-Market Product Leaders
I’ve had a lot of discussion over the last few months with product leaders looking for their next opportunity.…
Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder
This remote talk on “Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career
Ladder” was hosted by SVPMA [https://svpma.…
Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell”
I sometimes find product management teams composed entirely of first-timers,
where not a single person has any previous experience…
We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market
Every CPO/VP Product I talk with is in a battle for product talent. It’s even
harder than normal…
Hiring a Head of Product
Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 180 consulting
clients, I’ve headed up product teams…
Lying To Customers
I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Delegation for Product Leaders
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching
sessions: how much to delegate to…
Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?
Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that…
The Product Leadership Career Ladder
In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
Videocast: Moving Up into a Product Leadership Role
Mike Belsito of Product Collective [https://productcollective.com/] hosted this
half-hour live Q&A [https://www.youtube.com/…
Metrics for Product Career Schools?
December 6th’s Wall Street Journal
[http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-companies-delay-diversity-reports-to-rethink-goals-1480933984]…