Category: Team
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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 renown 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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What does it mean to be a product leader?!
A few months ago I sat on a panel with some great product people* and the topic of product leadership came up. “I’m not a product leader” I thought to myself. A good people manager perhaps, but not a leader?! Was this a case of impostor syndrome or a need to understand what product leadership…
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“When They Win, You Win” (Book Review)
Russ Laraway is a military commander turned people leader, currently working as Chief People Officer at Goodwater Capital. I recently heard Laraway talk about his first book “When They Win, You Win” on Jason Knight’s great “One Knight in Product” podcast and it prompted me to read Laraway’s book. Laraway’s frustration with a lack of…
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My Product Management Toolkit (53): Giving and Receiving Feedback – Part 2
I know I’ve written about feedback before (see My Product Management Toolkit no. 30 for example). I know I’ve admitted that receiving feedback isn’t something that comes easy to me. And I know that I can definitely improve the ways in which I give feedback. Learning about feedback was one of the reasons I recently…