By Saeed Khan Ask 10 people for a definition of the word “innovation”, and you’re likely to get 10 different answers; maybe more depending on who you ask. Don’t believe [ … ]
Category: Leadership
“One step at a time” can fail you
By Alan Armstrong Jackie, a colleague for over 15 years, recently shared with me her mantra in times of confusion: “One step at a time”. When things get overwhelming, Jackie [ … ]
Leading Product Vision
In my post, Essential Pieces for Strategic Product Leadership, I outlined four areas that are paramount for product leaders. First on my list was Product Vision and I’ll focus on that topic [ … ]
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
ProductCamp: The Unconference TEDxLocal for Product Leaders?
This past weekend I attended ProductCamp Austin #6 (PCA#6). How do you describe ProductCamp Austin? Imagine a TEDxLocal for Product Leaders in an Unconference format and open to all – with [ … ]
Ousting the middle manager in PM/PMM organizations
After reading an interesting post in HBR (The End of the Middle Manager), I’m compelled to offer my response. I find the HBR post timely and noteworthy. Here we go. [ … ]
Here’s what you said…
By Saeed Khan In December, I asked you to provide some input and help influence our content this year. There were several reasons for this, which I’ll get to shortly. [ … ]
A Product Leader’s Perspective of CES
I spent most of last week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It’s been a few years since I’ve attended, and from a product leader’s perspective, it was an opportunity to look [ … ]
The Cloud needs a greater Product Management focus
By Saeed Khan In the technology industry, 2010 will be remembered for a number of things. From a consumer perspective, the winner was the iPad. No other technology product had [ … ]
New Year’s Resolutions – A few simple ideas
Three New Year’s Resolution Ideas Time to come up with a few New Year’s resolutions? Here are three simple ideas. 1) Read well and read a lot I like to [ … ]