Tag: Team
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My Product Management Toolkit (44): “active open-mindedness”
It’s one of the biggest traps that we as product people can fall into: developing tunnel vision, and not keeping an open mind. Some people argue that one has to be single minded in order to be successful. Perhaps this is true if you want to be a successful golfer or an amazing musician, but […]
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Establishing trusted relationships
‘So, what is trust? We could say that a person or organization trusts another when both sides have reason to expect that neither will take advantage of the other, and, whenever possible, will even do things that advance the other’s interests.’ Brigitte Jordan Trusted relationships are critical, in every profession and in every walk of […]
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“The Culture Map” (Book Review)
A few years ago I worked with a team member who expressed his struggle to work with another colleague. “I don’t know whether it’s his Mediterranean temperament, but when he talks it all feels so brusque,” he said of our colleague. This is just my own example, but it’s exactly the kind of scenario which […]
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“Rebel Talent” (Book Review)
In “Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life”, Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino doesn’t write about sabotaging your company or product and being a rebel in that sense. If you feel like being disobedient or contrarian just for the sake of it, then Gino’s book isn’t really […]
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Book review: “Who – The A method for hiring” by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Almost everyone I speak to complains about how hard it is to hire good product people. We talk about the low return on investment of lengthy interview processes and those product hires that “didn’t work out”. I’ve written about hiring product managers previously and shared my lessons learned about recruiting good product people. Who – […]
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