Let’s apply a product mindset to the future of human endeavour. There will be four types of intelligence. Each type of intelligence will have its own place in the world, in the value system and the exchange of goods and services; therefore, in products. Let me walk through what those…

Don’t get bewildered by all the tools and sophisticated techniques of product professionals. Focus on these three to really take off. 1. Structured Thinking About Problems The biggest gap I see in newbie and non-product professionals is the lack of structured thinking about problems. Instead, they tend to reach for solutions too fast. The exciting…

Remote working boomed in a unique situation — the pandemic. Unfortunately, most companies and managers aren’t ready for this new way. Tl:dr: (1) It’s about who owns your time, (2) outcomes need outputs (3), measuring the output of remote knowledge workers is immature/insufficient (4) most companies do not have the…

It’s time to get rid of the 19th-century baggage of ‘work’ and ‘retirement’ and replace both with a modern understanding of purpose. The concept of retirement in the 21st century, in a world of digital knowledge work, is nonsense. Ignore it and use your head. Sit on the beach all…

The headline isn’t clickbait. The real bait surrounds you every day as a product manager if you swim in the shallows. On the fifth floor of a yawning sprawl of headquarters, based on the edge of suburbia, I was trying to stay awake at 4pm. The hours passed slowly in…

Here are some tips to navigate the complexities. — In a grey deteriorating back office in North London, I was demonstrating my first solo-built product with the team. Chantelle leaned near to the screen and said “How can you do that?”, whilst her peer Kate scrutinized the tool displayed for an overly long, silent minute before she asked “But…

A gangly wild-eyed man, with one slug for an eyebrow, lived in a trailer in Maine with his wife and two children. He taught English and wrote short stories to scrape a living by, and was once arrested for stealing traffic cones. …

In the cold March days of 1974 an aggressive colon cancer had nearly completed its work upon Ernest Becker, siphoning off the last heroic intent from his mortal coil. …

What mindsets do you need to bring to the Product game? and how do these differ from the Project mindset? — The Iron Triangle concept was born in the 50s. I won’t go into it’s long and varied history, but safe to say project folk the world over know it well and live by it. Frequently, it is used in stakeholder meetings to justify extending the timeline, when asking for more…