Whenever I coach a newly promoted product leader one of the first questions they ask is what the job of a product leader even is. They often feel very insecure about their new responsibilities and lost as to where to get started and whose input to trust. Product Leaders are often advised to develop aContinue reading “The core Jobs To Be Done for a product leader”
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How Product Leadership must evolve in the age of AI
When the internet became mainstream it had a huge effect on how organizations and teams worked and collaborated. The whole digital software product space came into existence at the time. AI is an equally big new influence affecting teams today, and the role of Product Leadership has to evolve again. There are two main perspectivesContinue reading “How Product Leadership must evolve in the age of AI”
So you want a high performing product team?
Many years ago, I started pondering this question. What makes a high performing product team? What can I learn about this and how do I apply my findings in practice? The theory is pretty simple: Build something both customers and your organization value, do it with a great team. But the practice of this isContinue reading “So you want a high performing product team?”
The trouble with role clarity in product organizations
A lack of role clarity is named as one of the main challenges product leaders keep mentioning when I interview them about what they perceive to be difficult about their job. But my hypothesis is: this is just a symptom of much deeper systemic issues. On the surface role clarity seems to be an easyContinue reading “The trouble with role clarity in product organizations”
The art of persuasion
Persuasion is about influence. It is a super useful skill to invite your team to co-create with you. So often in product roles, this is exactly what we could use more of. Persuasion skills could help you to be able to agree on a strategy, or to get to alignment on our OKRs or theContinue reading “The art of persuasion”
Resilience boosts your effectiveness as a leader
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity. It’s about navigating life and its challenges with resources in your toolkit, despite all those curveballs life throws at you. It’s your ability to keep living and creating, after your spouse died, despite the war in your country, in spite of a pandemic and/or despite aContinue reading “Resilience boosts your effectiveness as a leader”
The art of self-leadership
Leadership starts with leading yourself. Leadership ultimately is about co-creating something with a group of people who want to shape the world around them in an agreed upon direction. The role of leaders in that space is about creating the space for collaboration, positively influencing and empowering the relationships in the space, and making sureContinue reading “The art of self-leadership”
What senior leaders can learn from product teams
I keep looking at these two topics – leadership and product work – as I have deep roots with both of them. When I look back into my most recent corporate role, I believe that a large part of the success of the teams I was working with, was rooted in me leading that entireContinue reading “What senior leaders can learn from product teams”
Learning with your product team
For many years I have worked with product teams. And while there are certainly overarching skills, tools and insights for every product role to have, it is just as true that no two product teams are working in the exact same context. So thinking that you can take what works for one product team andContinue reading “Learning with your product team”
Creating a context to thrive in
When I’m watching kids play, it’s striking that they create whole worlds out of their imagination, using whatever is there to work as props and tools. And what they don’t have, they simply make up. I’ve been “served coffee” (imaginary fluid pouring out of a sand mold and into a fist), I’ve been given giftsContinue reading “Creating a context to thrive in”
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