Leadership • 5 min read Permission To Stay Focused An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational…
company strategy • 6 min read Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy Expanding on a recent post (Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product,…
Leadership • 1 min read Online Course: Product Leadership Essentials After decades of in-person classes, workshops, and event keynotes... I'm offering a live (real-time) remote course for CPOs,…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Speaking the Language of C-Level Execs (Money) Margarida Cosme Pereira, with Lisbon's Productized conference, invited me to join their podcast for a wide-ranging discussion including:…
company strategy • 6 min read Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months…
Customer Thinking • 6 min read AI-Washing We’re at the top of the AI/LMM/Chatbot hype cycle. Every biz publication is deliriously covering this. Stories…
Economics • 11 min read Moving from Services to Products I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
Executives • 9 min read Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
Organizations • 5 min read What Do We Owe Our Teams? Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the…
Economics • 1 min read Rochester NY: ITX Product + Design Conference 2023 Where: Rochester, NY in person When: June 22/23 Event details here This conference celebrated the power of UX design,…
Economics • 1 min read Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered…
Product Strategy • 9 min read Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…