Original analysis and reflections on life, product management and servant leadership.
Don’t pursue quick-wins. ind wins on the journey.
Don’t pursue quick-wins. Instead, find wins on the journey. This is an accompanying post to an episode of The Product Coach Podcast. The episode, “Great Products come from ‘Product Teams’”, is a part of the How to Build a Product Team series. Let’s say you’re interviewing someone, and you ask what motivates you, and in response…
Building a Product Team. Hiring from Product Manager to Manager of Product.
Concept in brief. While it’s tempting to hire the most senior team you can, an effective product team needs junior talent. By mentoring junior talent, you leverage your senior product managers and increase their product skills by broadening their exposure to problems. When you hire product managers, avoid hiring for a prototypical PM and minimize…
Learning to Master Time
Concept in brief. Time is a resource that you can apply to accomplish your goals, just as money and effort. You can deterministically outperform your peers and competition by acquiring skills at a continuous and long-term sustainable clip. Concept in action. Learning. Develop a strategic plan of what strengths you want to set you a…
Case Study: How did Apple Survive? Mastering the Product Turnaround
Concept in brief. Nailing the turnaround is one of the most valuable skills for a product leader. Windows Phone, webOS, and Yahoo each failed to meaningfully shift their market position in a winner take all market. So how did Apple survive with less than 4% Mac market share that never cracked 10%? Despite a weak…
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