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 […]
Daily sorrows, ugly truths, and a glimpse of hope. Keynote at the product management festival 2015
This week, Martin Rusch and myself presented at the Product Management Festival in Zurich. In our work at XING, our product is the product organization. We explained what we believe are the root causes of sorrows people experience in product management. And we offered a theory and a practical tool how to tackle these sorrows. Here […]
Framework No.12: Responsibility dialogue
The relationship between boss and direct is the most common one in any company. It is also the most important. Bosses increase their effectiveness through directs. And directs’ performance depend quite heavily on the relation to their boss. The responsibility dialogue can help to make this relationship more effective. Source I heard about the framework […]
Thoughts on solitude and leadership – William Deresiewicz
Different perspectives advance your thinking. I found a lecture that the journalist, William Deresiewicz, delivered at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2009. For people working in digital product management, this should be enough of a different point of view. The lecture is about leadership and what it all means. I looked at it with my personal mental […]
Framework no. 11: The Three Horizons
With which lense do you look at the business your team or company is doing? The three horizons framework offers a lense that will help you to find the important balance of optimizing the present and shaping the future. Source In 1999, the McKinsey partner Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, and David White introduced the concept in […]
