Moving to Substack

Hello!

Thanks for reading my articles on product management and product leadership on this site. I have migrated my content to Substack: https://productleadersjourney.substack.com.

I will be refreshing this site for some personal writing going forward and all the content here will be removed. I hope you will follow my product related writing on Substack. Some of my recent articles there are:

Marathons vs Decathlons: Running against AI or running with AI
1:1s with CxOs: Make them count
Moravec’s Paradox says Product Management is NOT Dead!

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Why Me?

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.

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Books Recommended by Guests of Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey

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!

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How to Align Star Performers with Team Goals

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.

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Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey is a wrap!

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.

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The Balkanization of Product Management

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:

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