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 [ … ]
Diagnosing Org Health – Take the ONPM poll
Sometimes pictures can say more than words. Here’s a simple flow chart to help diagnose organizational health and a quick poll. The top part of this chart is where culture [ … ]
The Whole Product Manager
By Prabhakar Gopalan Walk into an established software company and you see these product management and product marketing silos. [note: startups or well run product organizations don’t have this problem [ … ]
Weekend read on Innovation, Marketing and Strategy
If you haven’t read Big-Bang Disruption by Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes in the latest edition of HBR, please do. In a single article, the authors have done something [ … ]
How to make someone click-open and respond to your email
Here’s a very simple story that illustrates a test driven approach to copywriting. A few months ago I attended a Lean Entrepreneur workshop in Austin. As part of the workshop fee [ … ]
Why getting rid of spiffs is good for your tech business
In tech marketing, product marketing managers from a distant past employ sales spiffs to motivate the sales teams to sell their product over or in combination with another product. The [ … ]
The shokunin spirit for product leaders
It is mid January. Are you still looking for a New Year Resolution? Here’s a recommendation. Please watch this movie and think about your approach to your craft. Japanese-English [ … ]
Weekend Inspiration: Top performing culture
By Prabhakar Gopalan Here’s a little weekend inspiration from a Stanford Speaker series lecture recorded in Nov, 2010. The speaker is AB InBev’s CEO Carlos Brito. AB InBev is the [ … ]
Demos, Founders and Marketers
By Prabhakar Gopalan This post is inspired by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s detailed product review of Windows 8. Click here to see Paul Allen’s review. If there’s one thing about [ … ]
The fallacy of endorsing command and control leadership
I came across this recent HBR blog post “Why Command-and-Control Leadership Is Here to Stay“. A professor in organizational behavior is advocating command and control leadership backed by no real [ … ]