Category: Book Reviews
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My Product Management Toolkit (59): Building Trust
Trust is a two-way street. How much can we trust others? How much trust do others have in us? Earning and giving trust are pivotal aspects of any interpersonal relationship and matter hugely from a professional perspective. Michelle and Dennis Reina are renowned trust experts and have outlined three critical dimensions of trust: “trust of…
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“Team Topologies” (Book Review)
In 2019 Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais published “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow”. The book sheds a light on four fundamental team types: Stream-Aligned Teams: A stream-aligned team is a team aligned to a single, valuable stream of work; this might be a single product or service, a single set…
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“Listen Like You Mean It” (Book Review)
“Too often, we “solve” for miscommunication by focusing only on what we say and how we’re saying it: if we could only get our message across, things would be much easier.” It’s a powerful statement taken from “Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection” by Ximena Vengoechea. Vengoechea is an…
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“Working Backwards” (Book Review)
It feels like a lifetime ago when I first wrote about product management practices at Amazon. Nine years ago I write a post about product management at Amazon. Since then I’ve come across a number of valuable practices that have out of Amazon, and the thinking behind them. Reading “Working Backwards” by Colin Bryar and…
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“Beyond Command and Control” (Book Review)
“It is the system that governs the behaviour” John Seddon et al, “Beyond Command and Control” “Beyond Command and Control” starts off with clarifying the two main words in the book title. ‘Command’ means that managers make all the decisions and workers do as they’re told. The authors – John Seddon, Ibrar Hussain, Toby Rubbra…
