Episodes

Product managers create pitch decks and blog posts and user stories and sales trainings and ... the list goes on. But what if you hit a creative roadblock? Here are 3 techniques for blasting through these obstacles.

This episode is a portion of my recent workshop on “product management for founders," that I gave at the Incepto startup incubator in Menlo Park, CA.

What are the most important soft skills for product managers? I think most of us intuitively understand that soft skills are important for product managers. But, given that, let's drill down a bit.

Greg Prickril has been coaching and training PMs for many years. ​He started noticing that product managers, on the whole, were not putting as much attention into their careers - their professional development - as they could be. And that simply applying product management skills and techniques could make a big difference for PMs' career outcomes.

In this episode I share an important mental model I learned from Brian Kurtz, from his book Overdeliver, about his career in direct marketing, and his advice for anyone doing marketing of any kind.