Leadership • 1 min read How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders Topic: “How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders” and fireside chat Where: Dan Olsen’s Lean Product meetup (online) When: Thursday, 19…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Building and Managing a World Class Product Management Discipline Steve Divitkos’ In The Trenches [https://inthetrenches.net/podcast/] podcast series is for entrepreneurs and CEOs running small/medium-sized businesses.…
Leadership • 5 min read Merchandizing Product Management It’s pretty easy to tell if Sales is hitting its goals. (“Are we on track to hit this quarter’…
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…