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Go with Your Gut: A Guide to Trusting Your Instincts at Work
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of
May 12, 2023
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Little Miss Product Manager
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
May 12, 2023
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A Silver Lining in Tech Layoffs: An infusion of tech talent into legacy companies would improve the US economyThe scale of digital transformation twenty years after the first dot com bust means strong talent can find a home in traditional companies
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
May 12, 2023
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What it Means to be “Stubborn on Vision”
And flexible in the details of strategy and execution This month, I’ve been focusing on Vision in my posts. Love him or hate him, Jeff
May 12, 2023
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7 Pitfalls of Problem Definition: How businesses tend to think about customer problems all wrong
And how to make sure you and your team don’t fall into these traps “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well
May 12, 2023
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This is a Terrible Time to be an Average Technology Leader
Focus on these 3 skills that will set you apart from the pack “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” —
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B2H (Business to Human) is the New Mindset in Corporate Parlance
The timing couldn’t be better for the new acronym Photo by Keep It Human So there I was, sitting at a fancy SoHo hotel dinner
May 12, 2023
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Wisdom from the Dugout: 5 Baseball Quotes to Inspire Your Product & Innovation TeamsReflections from Yogi Berra to Coach Buttermaker
During Game 6 of the World Series in 1986, I paced around the living room of the family I was babysitting for. The New York
May 1, 2023
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Saying no could be good for your career…Opportunity cost as a key to success
You’ve read it a hundred times in articles about how to create the ever elusive work/life balance. And during the early months of the pandemic,
April 4, 2023
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Gratitude is Good for YouAs we head into the holiday season after a rollercoaster of a year, it’s a good moment to start a gratitude practice
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April 4, 2023
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