Thriving in Large Companies
Many of my readers work in large companies, including Adobe, Amazon, AOL, Apple, eBay, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, and Yahoo, and...
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Succeeding With Remote Development
One of the most common situations today is where the product manager is in one location, and the engineering team...
read moreWhere Should Product Management Live?
The single most frequent question I get from product leaders in companies both large and small, is where should product...
read moreGrowing Pains
In the last newsletter I spoke about the differences between large and small product companies, and how different they are...
read moreDoes Size Matter?
Two questions I get a lot are: “Is now the time to join one of the cool new startups?” and...
read moreCorporate Hubris
“Hubris: The false pride that comes before the fall” – Wikipedia I probably get more questions from product people about...
read moreOutwit-Outlast-Outplay
Sometimes being a product manager can feel like being on Survivor, and worrying about your product team voting you out...
read moreManaging Up
One of the most common questions I get from product managers, usually working at large companies, is how to manage...
read moreDoes Company Culture Matter?
Company culture is one of those vague concepts that can mean different things to different people. I use the term...
read moreHow Does Your Manager Rate?
I’ve always been a big believer in the adage that employees join a company but they leave a manager. This...
read moreGoogle as the New HP
Silicon Valley is all about creating products, and I would argue that no company in history has done that better...
read morePatton’s Advice for Product Managers
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”...
read moreStartup Product Management
I’ve been working with quite a few startups over the past few years, usually in an advisory capacity, but sometimes...
read moreFamous Product Managers
What do the following people all have in common? – Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape – Jeff Bezos, founder of...
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