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Story Time: Being Used
Wherein I helped the ouster of an arguably deserving leader, and the impact on my life/career
Geoffrey Anderson
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Story Time: The Alcoholic Colleague
A party guy does ... *good*?
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Story Time: Being Deposed Part I
The vast majority of product managers will never be seated at a table with advocates grilling them under oath, and with the video cameras rolling, but it does happen, and it sucks
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Story Time: Travel Log
A lighter post. Travel can make it difficult to remain healthy, and as I ramped up my travel schedule, I needed to stay in shape. Also, Travel Agencies are teh devil
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Story Time: Getting Yelled at for Approving a Discount
When Sales goes bad, it can really mess with your head
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Story Time: Ambushed
Two instances where I walked into difficult situations. One where I was naive, and one where I was set up. They both imprinted important lessons on my brain
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Story Time: "I don't pay you enough" - Former Boss
A simple meeting is very stressful, but it is part of the job.
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Story Time: Learning the value of over-communicating
A production drop out caused a lot of chaos when i was a newish PM for a product. I didn't know what to do, but I over rotated to communicate as we handled the issues, a template I used over and over
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Story Time: When you win, you also lose
We won the business, but what did we bargain for?
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Story Time: A Really Bad Situation
Starting a series of posts relating events and activities from a 25+ year Product Management career. First up, a shit-storm with a capital 'S'
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Tech Idiocy
Techies, "engineers" and others deep into the tech stack often are myopic. Sometimes you need to call them out explicitly.
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What is it all for?
A swan song.