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Octopus Careers & Throwaway Stickies with Chris Butler
In today's episode of The Beautiful Mess Podcast, I am talking to Chris Butler. Chris is currently a staff product operations manager at GitHub.During…
Apr 20
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TBM 283: Just and But
In the past, I've written about how the word "just" is seductive. We just need to _________! But "but" is also seductive. Given any proposal, you can…
Apr 18
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TBM 282: Three Stages of Org Evolution
I’ve shared this previously, but I thought it might be interesting to share it with my broader and more diverse newsletter audience. The table shows…
Apr 11
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John Cutler
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TBM 281: Stop Chasing Unicorns
There's a 94.5% chance your company isn't competing with the 1% of companies that regularly get called out for how they approach product. We will let it…
Apr 4
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March 2024
TBM 280: 2-6-4-1
If these points sound familiar, here's a fun way to structure a quarter. It's a nice change of pace and helps a team go through the "full cycle" of…
Mar 28
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TBM 279: How to Learn and Practice Product Management in a Feature Factory
Here's how to safely learn/practice product even if your org feels like an irreformable feature factory. Figure out how to instrument what you ship. At…
Mar 21
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TBM 278: The Power of Firsthand Experience
I was having lunch with my product leader friend Carey Caulfield recently, and something dawned on us: In the product world, we often forget how we came…
Mar 17
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Notes on Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Lenny's Podcast)
I love Lenny Rachitsky podcast. When an episode launches that I know I'll get questions on, I do an exercise of reading the transcript and taking notes…
Mar 17
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John Cutler
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TBM 277: Bring Back Fun
I remember when I landed my first "tech" job. I thought to myself: This is crazy—I'm getting paid to work with interesting people and solve challenging…
Mar 12
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TBM 276: Leverage Distribution
My current mental model for team effectiveness involves imagining a team’s time/energy investment as a distribution across leverage (or return on…
Mar 8
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John Cutler
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TBM 275: "Bad" Strategy. Why?
I often speak to people who lament the fact that their company strategy doesn’t match the "good strategy" descriptions discussed in books, talks…
Mar 1
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TBM 275: "Bad" Strategy. Why?
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February 2024
TBM 274: How Capable Leaders Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity
What do leaders who are skilled at navigating complexity know how to do? What do they do differently? What would you observe if a leader had these…
Feb 25
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