Category Archives: Leadership

What it Means to Be Great Product Manager

June 18, 2015
Career, Leadership
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A Tweetstorm of mine from earlier in the week: https://twitter.com/natbro/timelines/611337333711843330 1/ (piling on a comment @natbro made about PMs) Besides customers, there are two groups of people involved in building tech products: 2/ Engineers and everyone else. Only the engineers …Continue reading →

Attention is the Currency of Leadership

January 24, 2015
Focus, Leadership, Mentoring
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Great leaders optimize how they spend their attention. They are skilled at turning up the heat to get others to focus their attention on the right things at the right times. Attention is the currency of leadership and each person …Continue reading →

Find Work That Does Not Feel Like Work

March 24, 2014
Career, Leadership
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The first thing I ask people who are looking for a new job is “What work do you want to do in your ideal job?” It is interesting how few people answer this question. Almost everybody wants to answer different …Continue reading →

Once I was Afraid

October 27, 2013
Leadership, Mentoring, Passions, Personal
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Once I was afraid to ride a bike. Then I did it. Once I was afraid to program in BASIC. Then I did it. Once I was afraid of getting married. Then I married Julie. Once I was afraid of …Continue reading →