Deep down, every single one of us is driven by self-interest. As much as we would like to think that’s not true; that we can look beyond ourselves and do [ … ]
Month: October 2014
Forget research, let’s build something!
Let’s start with a haiku: Research a concept? How accurate will it be? Build something, then see. I’ve written a couple of articles recently on the difficulties in developing successful [ … ]
Product success is not easy….part 2
Scott Sehlhorst wrote a good post entitled Successful Products:Lucky or Intentional? about my comment on Phil Myers post entitled Chasing Outcomes. Did you get that? 🙂 Phil had summed up [ … ]
Emotional intelligence?
This has nothing to do with anything in product management, but maybe something to do with how well you get along with your co-workers, and your emotional intelligence. I just [ … ]
Sales Axiom: Sales is not customer service
Being in sales is an interesting experience. So much of it is about self perception and perception of others. I have worked for my whole career with sales people, and [ … ]
The price is never right
I’ve been thinking a lot about pricing recently. It’s one of those topics that we all deal with, but my guess is that none of us, myself included, deal with [ … ]
Product success is not easy…
Phil Myers on the Tuned In blog, wrote a post recently entitled: Chasing Outcomes. In the final paragraph of his post he writes: At the end of the day, its [ … ]
We’re running a business, not a technology company (part 2)
I want to continue with the this topic a bit. In the part 1, I made a few points: Product management must focus on optimizing for business success not simply [ … ]
Why would you attend a Product Management conference?
Just wondering, what would you like to see in a Product Management/Product Marketing conference that would entice you to attend? The organizers of the Software Marketing Perspectives conference, where I [ … ]
We’re running a business, not a technology company
One thing I always try to remind myself of, is that in the end, my job is to make the business successful. Product Management is a business optimization function. In [ … ]