Creating Clarity in a Complex Reality

As a product leader, your role entails much more than leading the product itself. It often involves complex decision-making – and many decisions that you can’t necessarily make on your own. Here is a simple tool that will help you create clarity and lead to alignment and better decisions.

Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

We all want maximum value for minimum effort or cost. But which one is more important? In times of an economic downturn, it is very tempting to offer less for lower prices. But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers.

From Product Management Back to Strategy

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. But you can’t really succeed this way, at least not the way your company needs you to. Here are three mindset changes that you need to make sooner rather than later.

3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

COVID is gone, and despite the initial hype, the resulting economic slowdown is here to stay. To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever.

What the Board Wants to Hear in a Product Presentation

When product leaders need to present to the board, they often talk about the product. But the board doesn’t want to hear about features. They want to know that they can trust you. Here are the important points to make sure you cover.

The Mental Load of Attacking at All Fronts

Managing companies, like households, come with an often overlooked mental load. But ignoring it doesn’t take away its impact, which could eventually lead to not being able to meet any of your goals. Here is what the mental load means for a company and how to deal with it.

Those Customer Requests in Your Backlog

Your customers seem to want new features all the time. If they use your product, that’s a great signal – it means they care and they want to do more with it. But you end up with an endless list of features in your backlog. Here is a quick guide to managing them.

Negotiate the Problem, Not the Solutions

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. You have limited resources on one hand and major decisions to make on the other. But are you negotiating the right things? It’s easy to debate solutions, but it’s hardly effective. To generate agreement when people disagree you must dive deeper. Here’s how.

3 Misconceptions About Product-Led Growth

Product-led growth (PLG) is a hot buzz. Looking at companies that succeeded with it, it seems to be an easy solution for many problems. But is it? Don’t rush into it without understanding what you get into.

Finding Your Sweet Spot When Managing Product Managers

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. This is often easier said than done though. As a product leader, is this a skill you already master?

3 Blind Spots in Your Product Leader Interviews (Company Side)

Hiring a product leader is never easy. You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. In most cases, you have never been in this position yourself before, so interviewing could be a challenge. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader.

3 Blind Spots in Your Product Leader Interviews (Candidate Side)

Finding your next job as a product leader is not necessarily easy. This is especially true if you are interviewing as a product leader for the first time, even if you had done the job before. Here are a few things that if you pay attention to would make it much easier for you to get your dream job.