3 Ways to Help Your Product Managers Stick To the Right Priorities

Have you ever had the feeling that your product managers are fully aligned with your priorities, but then life happened? Even when all the priorities are well understood, following them strictly is not easy. Here are a few ways to help your product managers succeed in this tricky area, for everyone’s sake.

3 Reasons Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. Here are three reasons why this happens, and what you can do to overcome each of them.

A New Level of Freedom in Roadmap Discussions

Roadmap discussions often become about features and timelines. While this is an important step in the process, it shouldn’t be the first. As a product leader, you need to make sure you facilitate the right discussions – both with your product managers and with your management team. Here is the interim level that many product leaders miss.

The Customer Experience That Matters Most

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. Is it a great one? Here are a few points to consider.

Can You Handle the Truth?

The reality we act in isn’t always nice. In many cases, we allow ourselves to see it in brighter colors than it actually is. As product leaders, this can be the beginning of a slippery slope. What can you do to make sure you are well-rooted in reality, even if it isn’t pretty?

How Paying More Taxes Made Me a Better Decision-Maker

We all want to be data-driven, but both data and our ability to work with it has its limitations. Being aware of them and managing yourself accordingly are both key to your ability to make smart decisions.

How to Remove Hidden Barriers From the Customer Journey

In product-led growth, the customer journey is everything, and optimizing it is the only way to grow. Even without product-led growth, it has a significant impact on your ability to meet your goals. But are you aware of all the ways in which the customer journey for your product isn’t optimal? Here are a few methods to find these hidden barriers and remove them.

How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 3)

Letting people go is never easy. As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. We usually try to help them succeed and both us and them give it our best. But how do you know if it’s time to give up? Here are a few ways to know the answer.

How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 2)

Some managers expect that once they give negative feedback, their people would fully embrace it and the problem would be solved. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. The initial negative feedback is just the beginning, and it is your job as a manager to help your people grow and succeed. Here is what it takes.

How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. Here is the complete guide on how to do it effectively.

Is Your Job to Keep Your Boss Happy?

As product leaders, our job is often the opposite: to highlight to everyone what we are doing wrong and what we are missing. But on the other hand, you still have a manager who wants things from you. How to keep them happy while staying true to your real mission? All the answers below.

Product Strategy 101: How to Continue When There Isn’t a Right Answer

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. Moreover, it’s not like there is a right answer that is objectively true (and even if there was, you wouldn’t be able to know it). Sounds confusing? It is. But here are quick methods to take you out of the talking and into action.