Category: Art_Of_Product_War
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Brilliance in the Basics (of Product Management)
The Marine Corps preaches “be brilliant in the basics.” Often we may be tempted to get fancy to use the latest sexiest gear and cool new techniques. But the highest payoff is almost always reflecting back on the most basic competencies and becoming brilliant in those. To do this as a Product Manager: Start with…
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To be a leader: deliver victory, share in the suffering
IBM is doing this wrong. The Marine Corps has done this right and it has done it wrong in its past too. How can we learn from this? This direct quote seems relevant here “How much more am I worth to IBM than that guy down at the bottom of the pay scale? Twice as…
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Interpersonal Violence and Statistics
Its strange how the relationship we have with death caused by interpersonal violence is so different from deaths caused other ways – I think it has to do with a feeling helplessness. If there is something we care about, we have to refuse to give in to helplessness, we have to dare mightily and refuse…
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Love value, value love
I’m a Product Manager, I’m also a father, a husband and a Marine and all of these inform my perspective on love. Don’t love your plan, your product, don’t love your company, don’t even love your problem. Love your people. We need to unabashedly bring love back into our lives. Ive been reminded of this…
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Gratitude (Professional)
As March begins I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on professional gratitude. I’ve been quite open about my gratitude personally. There’s an intersection there, a year ago my baby daughter Winter was in the NICU (Many of these posts are protected due to sensitivity if you’re a friend just ask me for…
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What is an “Offering Manager”?
And for that matter what is an “Offering?” Or a “Product” or a “Feature” and how do you know the difference between them all? What is an Offering Manager at IBM? A Product Manager? What is an Offering? How can you tell the difference between a Product and a Feature? Why can’t you just give…
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Cyber Security is a Team Sport
Cyber Security is a team sport. And it doesn’t have to be a dull compliance ridden affair with death by powerpoint, click-through web based training and mindless acceptance of each and every concept by rote. I just absolutely blazed through Cory Doctrow’s Little Brother novel series including the latest (potentially stand-alone more adult- focused) Attack…
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If you don’t use a password manager, you should quit your tech job…or any job.
Just go get a password manager
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Be Equal
I recently completed the Be Equal training as a part of my continuous learning at IBM. Part of it suggested that I record a knowledge-sharing session with my team on what I learned from the training, but I think I’d rather make it fully public, for the sake of broadest transparency. Because I think the…