Recently, I stumbled upon three articles that talk about leading a product organization. Together, they form a nice set of advise how to do that job. So here they are: Your first days … as the head of product management | A VP Product’s Checklist | What Product VPs at high-growth startups have in common […]
Competition, zero-sum games, and the creation of wealth
I find it fascinating when people come to the same conclusion from different starting points. Today I read ‘Redefining work‘ from Esko Kilpi. He talks about the way we work and describes that we are used to play competitive games under the assumption of zero-sum thinking and winner-takes-all philosophy. In his opinion, this competitive processes […]
Steve Denning on the dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value
Over the last couple of years, Steve Denning has published a series of articles at Forbes why maximizing shareholder value as the guiding principle of executives is a damaging idea. I believe he is right. To make it easier to follow the development of his thought, I have collected the main articles in this post. […]
Build a Product with a High-Concept Problem (Linke Share)
We see the world through the distinctions we choose to draw. Julie Zhuo made two distinctions already in her post’s headline that are the most important ones in product development: Problem vs solution Essence vs symptoms Over and over again, we get into passionate discussions and jump to conclusions where we haven’t really understand […]
Radical Candor (link share)
This article at First Round is about Kim Scott who tries to be a good boss. I like the opening with her simple goal: Create bullshit-free zones where people love their work and working together. Kim Scott calls the tool she promotes ‘Radical Candor’. It is about caring personally and challenge directly at the same time. It […]
Scaling product teams (link share)
Over at XING, I collect and share interesting posts regarding product management. You can follow that link share collection here. Last week, my favorite post was from Paul Adams: What we learned from scaling a product team. It is great that Paul shares his practical learnings how they run their product organization at Intercom. It is worth […]
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