Category: Team
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“Scaling People” (Book Review)
“Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building” is an indispensable resource for anyone needing guidance on managing people and scaling organisations. Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe, offers valuable insights and tactics for scaling organisations and developing people. Her approach to leadership and management is grounded in four core operating principles: “Scaling People”…
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“Click” (Book Review)
Do you ever wonder how to make sure that your product is differentiated enough? Thinking about what makes it unique or better than market alternatives? Then you should read “Click” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (who you might know from the highly successful “Sprint” book about the Design Sprint). Click introduces the “Foundation Sprint”…
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Founder Mode
Last week, Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, dropped his latest essay titled “Founder Mode” which got a lot of online noise with people defending and challenging it in equal measure. Graham’s essay is based on a recent talk at Y Combinator by Brian Chesky – co-founder and CEO at Airbnb. Chesky talked about the flaws…
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My Product Management Toolkit (62): Morton’s Resolution Model
In my book Managing Product = Managing Tension I wrote about the importance of healthy conflict. If you can challenge each other’s ideas or opinions constructively, you’ll be able to resolve conflict in a productive manner. Since writing my book I’ve learned about “Morton’s Resolution Model” by Morton Deutsch. Deutsch was a social psychologist who…
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“The Team that Managed Itself” (Book Review)
Reading the back cover of “The Team that Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership” by Christina Wodtke there’s an interesting quote from Marty Cagan, internationally renowned product management thinker and author: “In this new book, Christina has tackled what I consider the most important problem in the tech industry. Only a small fraction of product…
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