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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...

Dungeons and Dragons slays Agile

I had so much fun when I was a kid in my first years of high school discovering Dungeons and Dragons. I was playing the first release of the basic set in the early ‘80s and I’d spend hours...

Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap in Product Management

Speak to any Product Manager at a Product Management meet-up and they will sound practiced and polished. Not only are they adept at getting product initiatives across the line, they...

How working as a Product Marketer can help you become a better Product Manager

This is a guest post from Abhinaw Kumar. Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who...