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TBM 362: How (And Why) We Help
While it's easy to dismiss the standard consulting approach as formulaic or unlikely to spark deep systemic change, I believe it is also what makes it…
Jun 14
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John Cutler
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TBM 362: How (And Why) We Help
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TBM 361: Context, Collaboration, Intent, and Investment
I spoke with a company recently that discovered that 20 teams had built business cases around moving the same metric. If ALL of those teams realized…
Jun 6
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John Cutler
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TBM 361: Context, Collaboration, Intent, and Investment
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May 2025
TBM 360: "Wait! I Thought the Team Was Overloaded?!"
It can go around in circles like this for a long time. The leader gets more and more confused. What's real? Every time they leave the door open for more…
May 30
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John Cutler
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TBM 360: "Wait! I Thought the Team Was Overloaded?!"
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TBM 359: Process Person
I admit it. I’m a process person, in that I’ve intentionally designed processes throughout my career. Some of those have been baked into external…
May 23
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John Cutler
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TBM 359: Process Person
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TBM 358: The Genius of SVPG
Between 60-80% of all large enterprises I speak to have brought in Marty Cagan and/or SVPG at one point in the last couple of years. That is an…
May 16
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John Cutler
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TBM 358: The Genius of SVPG
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TBM 357: Perspectives on Change and Improvement
I am continuously fascinated by how people think about problems and improvement in their companies. This fascination applies internally as well. I've…
May 10
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John Cutler
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TBM 357: Perspectives on Change and Improvement
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TBM 356: Product Party Modes
I’m constantly reminded of how product teams don’t function like widget factories. It’s so tempting to imagine your “capacity” as being a function of…
May 8
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John Cutler
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TBM 356: Product Party Modes
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TBM 355: Who Should Care?
Some % of product leaders and product managers could care less about how their company works.
May 1
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John Cutler
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TBM 355: Who Should Care?
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April 2025
TBM 354: The 4 Framework Jobs (And Why It Matters)
But the real problem isn’t the number of frameworks, it’s that we’re often not clear about why we’re using them. Even when a team chooses a framework…
Apr 27
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John Cutler
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TBM 354: The 4 Framework Jobs (And Why It Matters)
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TBM 353: Conversation Quality and Scale
You can often "just tell" how a team (or company) is doing by listening deeply to their conversations and observing how they interact. You can also boil…
Apr 23
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John Cutler
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TBM 353: Conversation Quality and Scale
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TBM 352: Funding, Planning, and Context
This post is all about planning, funding, and context. My main thesis is as follows: In a lot of early-stage startups and companies experiencing rapid…
Apr 20
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John Cutler
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TBM 352: Funding, Planning, and Context
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TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters)
After all these years, I finally put something into words about prioritization.
Apr 15
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John Cutler
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TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters)
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