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If Your Product Managers Only Hear Agreement, You Have a Problem
As CEO, you rely on your product team to drive clarity, prioritize smartly, and build the right things. But here’s a quiet risk in plain...
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Apr 23, 20252 min read


Product Management ≠ Agile: How They Work Together (But Aren’t the Same)
If you’ve ever thought, “Isn’t Agile just how Product Managers do their job?” then you’re not alone. The truth is, Product Management...
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Apr 11, 20252 min read


Product Managers: Delivering vs. Gatekeeping vs. Orchestrating
Like any function in a growth stage Product company, the product team frequently needs to wear multiple hats until growing revenue allows...
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Apr 2, 20252 min read


The case of the missing Product Manager: Why so many product companies understaff the Product team and why its a big problem.
For some reason, even "Product" companies are not immune from the trap of covering product part-time. These are all real examples I've...
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Mar 13, 20252 min read


Is PLG (Product Led Growth) for me?
Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a proven strategy for scaling B2B software businesses, yet many companies dismiss it too quickly. Some...
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Feb 12, 20252 min read


How to know when you need a Product Leader
Your startup or growth-stage company is growing but never as fast as you'd like. You know that bringing in a Product Leader will be...
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Jan 15, 20252 min read


Sales Commitments 101
Aside from annual performance reviews, this is everyone's least favorite topic. And by everyone I really do mean everyone involved from...
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Nov 26, 20242 min read


CEOs: Quick test for fact-based decisionmaking
One of the first product management trainings that I personally found impactful was pragmatic marketing . The tidbit I've most often...
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Nov 20, 20242 min read


"So that's 1,500 nuggets right?" Why are we making AI harder than it should be?
In one of the more inedible (ahem) recent AI calamities , a fastfood giant's drive-thru bot added 260 orders (6 pieces each = 1,500!) to...
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Nov 1, 20242 min read


The Problem with Iterative Development
When was the last time you or your team asked the hard question " What is driving our product development iterations ?" Another way to...
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Oct 23, 20242 min read


So Where Do I Invest?
No one would disagree that investment is required to create products that solve customers' most pressing problem s... the controversy is...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read


Park Place or Parked Place?
Ah Monopoly... one of my favorite board games that, little did I know at the time, exposed me to basic business concepts years earlier...
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Jul 16, 20242 min read


The B2B trap with using Metrics
Good product teams attract smart people who want to make data-driven decisions. Quantitative product KPIs that show feature adoption,...
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Jun 24, 20241 min read


Outside-in, Inside-out, and Toasters
A well functioning product function & team needs both of these but finding good representation of both and a balance between them can be...
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Feb 23, 20232 min read


DNA Test: Solution or Product?
In my experience most B2B software companies, even successful ones, have to ask themselves this existential question at some point in...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
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