Product leadership
4 posts tagged Product leadership.
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Diverge. Test. Repeat.
Converge Last: How to Use Design Sprints to Actually Drive Innovation
A decade ago I helped run a design sprint that broke most of the rules in the playbook: testing days early, with multiple ideas, and no executive super-votes. That's exactly why it worked. Here's the field guide for product organisations that want to manufacture innovation instead of waiting for it.
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Decide well. Revisit honestly.
Seeing It Written Down: On Being Profiled, and the Principles I'd Defend
Leaders Loop just published an editorial profile of me, and reading your own life narrated back to you is a strange, clarifying thing. It named a throughline I've spent twenty years half-saying out loud. So here are the four principles I'd actually stand behind, in my own words.
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Diverge. Capture. Converge.
Think First, Write Last: How I Actually Write This Blog
I almost never start by asking AI to write the article. I start by using it to think, opening an idea up until something sharp appears, then arguing it back down into something I'd put my name to. Here's the actual loop, with real examples from conversations that became posts, specs, and a whole website.
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Memory. Coordination. Context.
The Innovation Elephant: Can AI Make Us Better Product Leaders, Not Just Faster?
Generic AI gives plausible product advice, and plausible is not the same as useful. This is the story of an experiment, turning a confirmation-bias chatbot into a genuine product partner by fixing the one thing that actually mattered: connected context.