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 [ … ]
Category: Great PM
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (Boxed Set with Bonus Features!)
I recently completed a six part series of articles entitled: How to be a GREAT Product Manager I started writing the series as an analogue to Ken Norton’s posting on [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 6)
Own the product from conception to completion and beyond In my early product management jobs, I focused a lot on the process of product management. A CEO of a startup [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 5)
Be an integrator, translator and communicator. Don’t be a terminator. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase that Product Managers are “the hub of the wheel”. I really don’t like that [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 4)
The 4 Cs of leadership: credibility, commitment, communication and courage Product managers need to be leaders. A truism no doubt. But what does being a leader really mean and how [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 3)
“Spidey-sense” instincts are good, hard data is way better For a sport known for it’s statistics, major league baseball has always been a game managed by instinct. Managers viewed the [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 2)
Be technical, without becoming a technologist Product Managers need to focus on the “what”, and not the “how”. The charter of the PM is to define what needs to be [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 1)
There are a lot of good posts out on the Web about hiring product managers. One of the most popular ones that I’ve seen is entitled “How to Hire a [ … ]