A very good suggestion was made by one of the readers in the comments section of my earlier post — “…how to manage the massive bitterness that conjures up when someone tell you that your work sucks and how to identify the genuine feedback with what steps to take to self introspect”
So I thought I’d follow up with some more thoughts on the topic. Continue reading “Your Work Sucks…Now What?”
That one sentence can probably encompass all the workplace related bitterness that Steve Jobs is said to have dished out to Apple employees.
At some level, I am a little bothered by the focus on Steve Jobs’ negative personality traits. It seems to shift the focus from his true legacy and his innate talents for product, strategy and marketing, among other things. Continue reading “Your Work Sucks”
To paraphrase the beginning of the article from the New York Times titled “Why We Love Beautiful Things“, great design is like pornography, you know it when you see it. And it was instantly recognizable, design that is, when I was at a men’s restroom in Terminal 2 of Charles de Gaulle airport a few weeks ago. Continue reading “Design Thinking for Airport Restrooms”
At first glance, it seems counter-intuitive that the two parts of the question would be related to each other.
How Will You Measure Your Life?, written by Clayton Christensen, is about how one can be successful, and happy in one’s career; how can relationships be a source of continuing happiness; and how can one live a life of integrity.
Continue reading “How Will You Measure Your Life…and Build Great Products?”
After “Understanding Value” in Part 1, and “Creating Value” in Part 2, we come to the third aspect of the value journey, “Capturing Value”. When we think of capturing value, the topic of pricing comes up as important. While price is an important aspect of capturing value, it is not the only one. The price of the product allows capturing value in the economic sense.
Continue reading “The Insanely Great Product Manager – Part 3: Capture Value”
In Part 1, we looked at the first step of the value journey, Understand Value. In part 2, we will look at the next step, Create Value, and the product manager’s role in this step. As we did in part 1, we will look at this in the context of one insanely great product manager, Steve Jobs, as well as some other examples. Continue reading “The Insanely Great Product Manager – Part 2: Create Value”
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