By John Mansour “We’ve created an innovation team.” Oh, great! Just what every product manager needs – more shiny new objects competing for the same resources that should be going [ … ]
Month: October 2014
It’s difficult to manage P&L…
It’s difficult to manage the P&L, when you don’t have control of the “P” or the “L.”—Rich Nutinsky, Pragmatic Marketing It’s fairly common for product managers to be asked to [ … ]
Understanding the role of Product Manager
by Pandith Jantakahalli A product manager helps a company achieve its goals by helping customers get their jobs done in an unique and delightful way, and getting customers to pay in [ … ]
The Whole Product Manager
If you liked this post, please retweet: “The Whole Product Manager by @PGopalan via @OnPM http://bit.ly/thewholeproductmanager” This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give a talk on The Whole [ … ]
Professional development and succession planning
By Steve Johnson The standard rejection letter claims “We’ll keep your resume on file.” But do you really? Statistics on job tenure seem to be all over the map. Generally, [ … ]
How to deal with a Zombie product
by Saeed Khan If you turn on your television or go to the movies, or read books, it seems like zombies are everywhere. And while those zombies are fictional, there [ … ]
Alas, the one-hour meeting
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.—Dave Barry [ … ]