Leadership • 6 min read How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray I often have conversations with CEOs of software companies or software-powered (ecommerce) companies who aren’t steeped in how software…
Leadership • 7 min read Difficult Product Discussions with CEOs I’m sometimes pulled into difficult discussions with CEOs, where I’m trying to describe systematic product-side failures that directly…
Leadership • 1 min read AMA on Working with Sales and Executives Rich joined Product Tank Des Moines/Ames [https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Des-Moines-Ames/] for an “Ask Me Anything” session on working…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Coaching With Heart One of my VP Product coachees raised a topic that comes up often:“I want to become a much better…
Innovation • 6 min read We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
Leadership • 1 min read Managing Misaligned Stakeholders (Mind The Product APAC) Event: Mind The Product/Digital APAC [https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/singapore/] Rich’s topic: Dealing with Misaligned Stakeholders (and…
Innovation • 4 min read Prioritization Beyond Algorithms The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with product leaders, and in almost every product…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Workplace Confessions Product Collective [https://productcollective.com/]‘s Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca have turned season 10 of their Rocketship.FM podcast:…
Leadership • 4 min read Shoulder To Shoulder I talk with CPOs/VPs of Product almost every day. And with CTOs/VPs of Engineering every week. A frequent…
Leadership • 6 min read Podcast: Combining Business & Product Mindsets Christian Strunk and Alex Dapunt host the Product Bakery [https://www.product-bakery.com/] podcast. In this episode, I joined them…
Leadership • 7 min read How Product Can (and Can’t) Speed Up Development Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Maker teams (aka…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs Cyrus Eslamian hosts the “Product Manager Hub [https://pmhub.tech/]“ podcast. He invited me on to talk about product leadership,…