Are you starting a new job and wondering what made you stand out from all the other equally great candidates? I had a coaching call earlier in the week with a person who is joining a global tech company as Head of Engineering for one of the businesses. We talked about things to learn and questions to ask. We went deep into the specifics of the company, products, customers, metrics, team, etc.
One question that often doesn’t get asked – why me? I’ll phrase this below.
Continue reading “Why Me?”If you are like me, always on the lookout for book recommendations, I’ve got something for you! I asked each of my guests on Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey which books they can’t recommend enough to others.
Here are the worthwhile titles that came up. I hope you enjoy these reads!
Continue reading “Books Recommended by Guests of Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey”When Phil Jackson was appointed Head Coach of the Chicago Bulls, the team was far from being a championship team. Michael Jordan, however, was winning all the individual awards such as Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Scoring Title for highest points averaged per game, etc.
Jackson wanted to put in place the Triangle Offense, which would involve other Bulls players more than they had been. He had the following conversation with Jordan, which he shared on the episode of Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin.
Continue reading “How to Align Star Performers with Team Goals”
Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey is a wrap! These last three months have been a huge learning for me personally to roll up my sleeves with this. It’s early days still and I am learning a ton, and also having fun! Just so grateful to these amazing leaders 👇 for giving their time, sharing stories and wisdom, all with a lot of humility. Incredible conversations. Most importantly, thank you all for following along, listening and sharing your feedback! 🙏 A quick recap below. You can catch these episodes here and on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
Continue reading “Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey is a wrap!”If you are a product manager, be a product manager. More importantly, don’t be an “AI product manager”, or a “cloud product manager”, or a “data product manager”, or a “crypto product manager”, or a “VR product manager”, or a “digital product manager”, you get the point. Just. Be. The. Product. Manager, which usually boils down to:
Continue reading “The Balkanization of Product Management”“We have decided as a company that we are not going to send emails introducing new people”, my manager said to me.
It was my first day on the job in dot-com era Silicon Valley. I had just moved from St. Louis, MO to the Bay Area. Here I was, day 1 at the startup, employee number 103. In two months, the company would be down to 19 employees, but that’s a story for another day.
Continue reading “Product Leader’s Journey: Onboarding – Carpe Diem, Seize the Day!”
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