The opening two minute sequence of this episode is a great example of Ideation, or rather what not to do in Ideation.
Michael rushes into the office asking everyone for their ideas. He establishes the constraint of time, the wet cement is drying and he needs people to think fast about what mark he can leave on the cement. Let’s break this clip down. Continue reading “The Office Season 4 Episode 12: Ideation”
Very good tweetstorm by @noah_weiss, Head of Search, Learning, & Intelligence at @SlackHQ in NYC. Former SVP of Product @foursquare + Google PM on structured search. Stanford alum, Brooklyn native. Continue reading “Five Myths About the PM Role by Noah Weiss”
There is an identity crisis. Who is John Galt?
I came across a question on LinkedIn – Why do you think the role of product manager is so misundestood?
Very good tweetstorm titled “Writing is Thinking” by @stevesi , former Microsoft executive and current board member at a16z. Continue reading “Writing is Thinking by Steven Sinofsky”
I imagine many of us get emails about upcoming webinars from time to time. I got one such email today, and the first sentence paused me in my tracks.
Product Management has historically been reactive and gut-driven.
The email further talked about how Agile Product Management and an experimentation-driven approach can deliver “obvious and immediate” value to users.
Continue reading “Has Product Management really been “Historically Reactive and Gut-Driven”?”
This article [Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers] by Rana Foroohar based on her book “Makers & Takers: The Rise of Finance and Fall of American Business” talks about the state of business education in the US. For my friends in India, I am curious to know if you think this applies to the state of Indian business education as well. The main points in the article:
Continue reading “Why Has Business Education Failed Business”
On Product Leadership 