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After a 15 year hiatus, I recently made the shift from product manager to people manager. I made a big mistake that impacted people I care about. I’ll …

14 hr ago

Big thanks to @ChrisSpalton for the review and drawings! Two anglers wade in a river. One-hundred meters from each other. They complete each other's th…

Apr 29

Huge favor to ask. Have you learned a new analytics product in the last year or so? If so, and you have 5 minutes to spare, I’d be very grateful if you…

Apr 22

Here's an anti-pattern to watch for: Hiring a process, tool, framework, or label to do too many jobs. An example. A team starts using OKRs. You ask the…

Apr 15

I have a book for sale! You can read it free here. Or download the ebook here. Or tip.🎬 As a systems thinker type, how do you broach complex problems …

Apr 8

I have a book for sale! You can read it free here. Or download the ebook here. Or tip. In this post I am going to briefly describe a board design I use…

Apr 1

Almost every team has experienced a period of time when: Goals don’t stick Decisions drift There are repeated (but unsuccessful) efforts to reset It is…

Mar 25

Goal Setting by Julian Cutler I worked with a manager once who explained his rationale behind goal-setting: Without goals, no one will do anything! The…

Mar 18

If you have time this morning—or want to get the recording—I’m chatting with Emily Campbell, VP of Product, BookClub. We re going to go deep on communi…

Mar 11

A simple idea for this week's post. To make progress in product development we often need to: Introduce artificial constraints Agree to proceed with in…

Mar 4

Many companies treat all product work the same . The same stages and phases. The same approaches to budgeting, discovery, work decomposition, and colla…

Feb 25

Here's an activity you can do right now to help your team grapple with talking about risk and uncertainty. There is nothing new/groundbreaking about th…

Feb 18

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