The Brainmates Blog - the best product mind is product fit

Developing your Product Spidey Sense

Recently, I’ve interviewed folks from the Australian Army, Navy, and Airforce. These people are taught to sense and react to danger before it occurs. They carry out tasks without having to use all...

New leadership skills required to thrive in constant disruption, complexity and ambiguity

By Terri Soller, Managing Director, Conversus Leaders. With Google showing three billion hits for the term “leadership”, why do we find this so interesting? I was sitting in an airport...

Establishing a market-led culture with a Product Management framework

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of...

Are your Product leaders good enough?

Long before I started Brainmates, my colleagues and I used to joke that the people who were promoted at a large company where I worked, were those who were terrible at their jobs. Promoting these...

Why I do the thing I hate

Given we all hate reading documents so much, why do I spend my life writing them? Hint. It’s not for the money. As an analyst I don’t think it necessarily hurts that I hate reading myself....

Is your Product Mindset “The Explorer” or “The Settler”?

One of the hardest parts of working in Product Management is the need to be able to shift mindsets from the consideration of a big picture opportunity to sweating over the details of design and...

High-performing teams require a new kind of leadership – one that’s vulnerable, self-aware and cares for the person, not the employee

I recall sitting in a Senior Leadership Team meeting, where our Editor-in-Chief was presenting to a newly formed Executive team on the extensive history of the newspaper title. At one point, he...

Are you cut out for Product Management?

We know Product Management is a tough gig. So many articles have been written about this multifaceted, multidimensional role encouraging us to continue to fight the good Product fight. But...