“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!”This seems like a timely topic ahead of Labor Day weekend! I had some thoughts on Geoffrey Moore’s as always insightful piece on Making Peace with Generative AI. So I am posting them here instead of leaving a lengthy comment. I am in general agreement, like many of us, that GPT/AI is a blessing than a curse. If you haven’t read Geoff’s article, I highly suggest doing that first.
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Sharing a book I enjoyed reading on a recommendation – “Going on Offense” by Behnam Tabrizi of Stanford University. It is about how companies need to transform themselves in order to be continuously innovating. The book just released about a week ago. I couldn’t put it down, partly because I can relate to my experience driving 0-1 innovation in startups and large companies, but mostly because of the book’s content and organization. The author dives into the following drivers and characteristics of continuously innovating organizations:
Lately, I am seeing posts on LinkedIn discussing whether the product manager (PM) is really the “CEO of the Product”. The posts aim to “debunk the ‘PM as CEO of the Product’ myth” as they put it. The typical arguments given are:
Disclaimer: After a few prompts, I asked ChatGPT to write an appropriately titled blog post about Microsoft’s comment that AI can give “usefully wrong” answers, with examples of “usefully wrong” information that humans are used to in various fields, and what humans can do to check “usefully wrong” information, with examples. The cover image was generated by DALL-E. Was this useful?!!
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On Product Leadership 