The World has Changed…

By now, most of you have heard that Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection. The $5B household name for generations carries $6.1B in debt and simply lost its way. As David Gillen, Deputy Business Editor for the New York Time recently shared, “It seemed like a company was stuck in time. The world changed, but Kodak didn’t.” While [...]

Every week is SHARK WEEK in Product Management

I love SHARKS! They are fascinating creatures and are often misunderstood and maligned. This week is one of my favorite times of the year. The Discovery Channel runs all types of shark programming featured as SHARK WEEK. There’s analysis, interviews, conjecture, conversations, education, entertainment and amazing film footage that makes you rethink a day at the beach.What do [...]

Managing Product Management Distractions

Last week while reading email, answering IM , viewing Twitter stream, looking at a text message from my son, reviewing a clients LinkedIn profile, answering a call and trying to focus on product management tasks, Bob Corrigan, sent a response to an earlier tweet I had posted. “Does technology distract (#prodmgmt & #prodmktg) from being effective? via [...]

Expectations and Product Leadership

I sat there listening as a director of product management vented about the lack of expectations set by his executive leader. Have you ever been in this situation? Were you on the listening or venting side? Either way, setting clear expectations is essential to those who lead products and those who lead product management and [...]

5 Practical Ways to Improve Executive Communications

Everyday, product management and product marketing are barraged with data and information that finds its way into competitive intelligence, innovation, better requirements, insights into the buying process and more. In his book, Strangers unto Ourselves, Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia shared, “The human mind can take in 11 million pieces of information at any given [...]