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Why it is hard to break into Product Management
I hear stories of people who are struggling to get that first product management role but I can explain a bit why this is so
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The Twitter Situation
The saga of, and distressingly rapid degradation of Twitter, and my thoughts. I will forgive you if you don't read this.
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Product Management Superpower: Asking Questions
Planned sessions with real people give rise to how important the ability to ask probing questions, and to extract maximum value from your face time. Take advantage of it.
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Startup Insanity - Relearning some painful lessons
At times, it seems that nobody learned from the dot-com crash of the early aughts. Startups and VC's are in for a funding winter me thinks, and that those who win will have concrete paths to revenue
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Product Management is a Team Sport
There are many analogies twixt product management and a sports team, but also some important distinctions. Don't overreach on successes, absorb the pain of losses, and you will be a star
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Product Management Superpower: Poker Face
Since I am on a roll lately, one additional superpower is to have the ability to remain emotion free when someone says something completely insane in your presence. This is boss-level coping
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Product Management Superpower: Empathy
Much has been said about product management having empathy for customers, but that is only half the story. Having empathy for your team and those around you is just as important
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Survival in a Huge Company
An off the cuff comment really resonates. That being successful requires an ability to find information that is not well structured, and to understand how people and processes work in an organization.
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Personal Development
The dreaded topic of development goals for the year are in the air again. What do I sign up to?
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Being Considerate
Nobody expects the product manager to know everything, and it is OK to ask completely off-the-wall questions. But do the people you ask a favor and let them know how deeply to research
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What is "Productivity" Anyways?
Recently,. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet (aka Google") said that worker productivity needed to improve. This led to a lot of incorrect thinking and expository discourse in the tech fora.
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Some of my favorite posts
Looking through the archives, I have selected a few of my favorites that I have written. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed writing them.