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Amazing Product Managers Start Erasing Technical Debt and Stop Adding Features
July 9, 2015
Amazing Product Managers Start Erasing Technical Debt and Stop Adding Features

As product managers, we spend a lot of time understanding our customers and adding features to our backlog. We prioritize features with our executives and engineering…

How Successful Product Managers Work With Tough Sales Teams
July 7, 2015
How Successful Product Managers Work With Tough Sales Teams

It always feels the same. You can tell by the tone in her voice. The VP of Sales is angry, very angry. That is because the latest release did not have the feature that…

How You Can Work Less and Get Rich
July 6, 2015
How You Can Work Less and Get Rich

Which part of the title interested you most — working less? More money? Or both? Most people I know like both equally. You know the get-rich fantasy images — the boat,…

Meet Wayne, The World's Most Rotten VP of Product
June 30, 2015
Meet Wayne, The World's Most Rotten VP of Product

It’s hard to escape FIFA these days. The arrests of several officials on corruption charges have made global headlines for the past few months now. Clearly this is bigger…

How to Recover From a Horrible Interview
June 16, 2015
How to Recover From a Horrible Interview

There are bad interviews, and then there are BAD interviews. Sometimes the interview just starts off wrong, like you have the wrong address, wrong day, wrong time, and…

The 4 Qualities of Marketing Leaders I Love to Hire
June 12, 2015
The 4 Qualities of Marketing Leaders I Love to Hire

I once worked with a talented Marketing Manager named Nick (name changed) who had a strange habit that may surprise you. At least once a month, he would interview with…

5 Habits of Hyper-Productive Product Managers
June 9, 2015
5 Habits of Hyper-Productive Product Managers

The most productive product managers are like many other high achievers. They seem to get more done in a month than most do in a year. When you find one you do everything…

How Confident Managers Stop the Office Bully
June 7, 2015
How Confident Managers Stop the Office Bully

Every office seems to have one – the one person everyone is hiding from and complaining about. You know him — the office bully. He is in some ways worse than a…