Congrats! You have just been promoted, or you were hired into a new product leadership role. That’s super exciting, and also the best time to make an intentional plan for how to succeed in it. The first three months count in setting you up for success (or learning fast, that this particular role is notContinue reading “Your first 90 days in your new product leadership role”
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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?”
How to think and talk about business impact
About 8 years ago I had just started in a new product role. I wanted to get to know my key stakeholders and understand this organization’s business. I was lucky that the CFO and me both worked in the same office, physically close to each other. I wanted to understand what kind of business caseContinue reading “How to think and talk about business impact”
Vulnerability – a key skill for product leaders
It takes a healthy dose of courage and self-awareness to be ok with vulnerability. To become aware of how it affects your relationships and to start consciously using it to improve your working relationships. It took me quite a few loops to become aware, start experimenting with it and start learning how vulnerability turns intoContinue reading “Vulnerability – a key skill for product leaders”
How to practically get started with thinking about ethics in AI products?
If you are like most people, this topic may seem daunting. It can feel complex, difficult and overwhelming to think about ethics. Or it could be fun, creative and super fulfilling. My aim is to make the case for the latter framing with this blog post and invite you to explore this aspect of productContinue reading “How to practically get started with thinking about ethics in AI products?”
How to find your authentic leadership style?
When you are female and leading in Tech, you will find some of the leadership behaviors of your successful white male peers in conflict with what you care about. Their leadership style works for them, yet it is simply not what you want to copy or how you want to be as a leader. YourContinue reading “How to find your authentic leadership style?”
Useful leadership skills for product roles
When I took my first product role, the main thing I was interested in learning was about specific product skills. How to build a roadmap, what Scrum is, how to write user stories and requirements, what a product vision or strategy is, specific technical domain knowledge like how an API functions and how you mightContinue reading “Useful leadership skills for product roles”
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”
Wellbeing matters for high performance at work
This actually should not come as a surprise to anybody. If you had to define what hinders you to do focused and challenging work, you’d likely mention things like feeling tired, stressed, hungry, cold or too hot, sad, pressured, angry, anxious or in pain. When thinking of states of being, that are conducive to deepContinue reading “Wellbeing matters for high performance at work”
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