Hint: it involves ruthless prioritization and making (minimal) high-integrity commitments So 2022, that was… something else. I don’t know about you, but I feel like I went through the wringer last year. My immune system is shot and I spent… Read More »How a Product Management Coach Thinks about Making 2023 New Year’s Resolutions
Who thought we’d be excited about a new Microsoft product in 2023? Don’t throw the past away You might need it some rainy day Dreams can come true again When everything old is new again A soundtrack for anyone who… Read More »Bing! Microsoft not snoozing on ChatGPT opportunity
In which I kick my 3 notebook a month habit, thereby solving the problem of never being able to find that one page I wrote those meeting notes on Photo by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov on Unsplash Last summer I rekindled a relationship… Read More »A Valentine’s Love Letter to my Remarkable 2
Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Human connections are my favorite part of work. In my consulting practice, I coach leaders and teams on topics like writing strong product OKRs and best practices for product manager. I just returned from… Read More »ChatGPT And I Composed A Series Of Poems & Songs About The Human Side Of Tech Teams And The Results Were Surprising…And Inspirational
Photo by Vitaliy Grin on Unsplash There’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was And there’s ash in the pages, now I’ve got myself lost I was writing to tell you that my feelings tonight Are a… Read More »My Fellow Notebook Lovers: Today is Our Day
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Imagine you’re sitting in a conference room, listening to your colleagues go on about… Read More »Go with Your Gut: A Guide to Trusting Your Instincts at Work
Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) Demonstrating Leadership in Jaws (Credit: Universal Pictures, 1975) Spoiler alert! If you have not seen Jaws, you should stop reading immediately and rent it on Amazon Prime, preferably the UHD version. I’m about to drop a whole bunch of… Read More »7 Leadership Lessons from Jaws, the Summer Blockbuster
Flip the Script on Your Biggest Challenges Credit: Shutterstock A few years ago, I went to Costa Rica for a yoga retreat: a dream trip I had been thinking about for years. But just over a month before I was… Read More »Power in Your Problems: How Constraints Inspire Creativity & Drive Innovation
Little Miss Smiles and Puts it in the Backlog Hopping on the Little Miss bandwagon. I have worked in Product Management for many years, and this is my take on how it often plays out on the human side. The… Read More »Little Miss Product Manager
Suggested soundtrack for this story I was walking from my regular morning train when my phone trilled. “Where are you?” My colleague and friend was loud whispering. “There’s a big meeting about to happen.” I hustled into the two-story brick… Read More »A Silver Lining in Tech Layoffs: An infusion of tech talent into legacy companies would improve the US economy
