leadership
Messed up Firings
Spend any significant length of time in Corporate America, and you will see some callous treatment of the workforce. Don't be shocked.
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Leadership is key to product management, however, it isn't leadership via authority, but by influence, a vastly more difficult accomplishment
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Split Leadership
A new Leader, a new (old) strategy, and a lot of churn, for what? To chase others, to try to beat them, but ineptness and past prejudices intrude
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New Bosses
The Dude gets a new boss, and while his direct experience lacks, he is very coachable, and the Dude is helping him be successful
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Bad Leadership, or, Is it time to leave?
It is like a broken record, where we are doomed to listen to the same grove over and over. New leader, shake things up, finds out that it ain't so simple, then doubles down and bad shit happens.
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Executive Fluffing
NSFW warning. Imagine being a professional Executive Fluffer. They do exist, and lawdy, the Dude doesn't envy them.
Product Management
What a Product Manager should focus on
Ever been in a product management role that had a terrible leader? How about a great leader? What is the differentiator? Read on
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Stretch Projects
A peer leans into a stretch project, the Dude is to "advise", but then the Dude does most of the work.
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Consensus Shopping
If your organization is in the consensus trap, you as product manager have had your wings clipped, and could be replaced with a paperclip.
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Spread thinner than the Tequila in a Chili's Margarita Machine
Want your product managers to be able to be more strategic? Then don't overload them, regardless of how much you need them to do more tactical tasks...
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Difference between an IC and a Manager (or leader)
The "up or out" mentality seems to be sticky, yet it can be damaging to the organization. Please, make it possible for satisfied long-term individual contributors to be properly rewarded.
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Textbook Case: Human Resources circles the wagons
Human Resources is there to protect the corporation, and the executives. All else is window dressing, including the shameful practice of intimidation, retaliation, and marginalization
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So, you want to be an executive…
Executives are not like us, they are a breed apart, groomed from birth, or tapped for the track at the beginning of their career.