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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 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 350: Connecting Dots
As the title of my newsletter suggests, I'm obsessed with the mess of product development. Over the last couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time with…
Apr 11
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John Cutler
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TBM 349: A "Product Transformation" North Star
What % of product teams in your company can operate fairly independently while having a clear line of impact from their day-to-day work to what matters…
Apr 7
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John Cutler
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TBM 349: A "Product Transformation" North Star
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March 2025
TBM 348: Shared Understanding At Scale
Information overload, lossy models, telephone games, the lure of loops, pretty-but-mostly-worthless-cascades, and the quest for the one roadmap view to…
Mar 30
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John Cutler
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TBM 347: "Why Don't Our Leaders Care About How We Work?"
John, many of your posts are about taking a thoughtful and intentional post when designing your company's operating system. I very much appreciated TBM…
Mar 23
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John Cutler
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TBM 347: "Why Don't Our Leaders Care About How We Work?"
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TBM 346: Broken Record Models
As a product manager, it is your responsibility to guide the conversation with your partners in ways that are more product-centric, and less reactive…
Mar 18
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John Cutler
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TBM 346: Broken Record Models
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TBM 345: Back On Track
In retrospect, it was like someone had flipped a switch, and I had missed it. We weren't in that transformation mode anymore. I had a lot of trouble…
Mar 15
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John Cutler
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TBM 344: Context, Possibility, Intent, and Action
This post describes some core principles for designing the right mix of rituals, artifacts, frameworks, and cycles for your team or organization.
Mar 4
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John Cutler
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TBM 344: Context, Possibility, Intent, and Action
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February 2025
TBM 343: "We Kind of Suck at That Right Now"
Wow, we kind of suck at that right now," I said. To me, that didn't seem controversial. I believed in the team. I was sure we could improve if we needed…
Feb 26
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John Cutler
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TBM 343: "We Kind of Suck at That Right Now"
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TBM 342: Who Pays the Ego Toll?
Most teams are surrounded by objectively easy, low-hanging ways to improve but often do nothing. Why? Even low-hanging fruit requires someone to take…
Feb 21
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TBM 342: Who Pays the Ego Toll?
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