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Oct. 20, 2024

On executive recruiting - A conversation with Chris Johnson, Founder Artisanal Talent

Chris Johnson is CEO & founder of Artisanal Talent , a highly specialized boutique executive search firm known for building some of tech’s most talented executive teams. Chris leads the Product and Engineering Leaders Practice, and is one …

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Oct. 12, 2024

CEO of the Product - A conversation with Al Zollar, Board Member IBM, NASDAQ, BNY

This weekend edition of the Product Leader's Journey newsletter contains lightly-edited excerpts of a conversation with Al Zollar , Board Member IBM , Nasdaq , BNY in Season 2 of the podcast. Al had a distinguished career of over 34 years at IBM, du…

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Oct. 3, 2024

Founder Mode vs Manager Mode

"Hiring good people and letting them do their jobs" turned out to be a disaster at AirBnb. So Brian Chesky decides to run the company like "how Steve Jobs ran Apple", with great results. Now, Paul Graham doesn't elaborate in the essay what "how Stev…

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Sept. 28, 2024

Zoom Out. Move Up - A tool for moving up in product management

Welcome to the Product Leader's Journey newsletter which covers three topics for B2B product leaders: #Product, #Career and #Leadership. The topic for this edition is #Career. Zoom Out. Move Up. Reading time: 4 min Early in my career as a Produc…

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Sept. 24, 2024

Rethinking work, hiring and high performing teams - A conversation with Stuart McClure, CEO of Qwiet AI and Wethos AI

This post contains abridged excerpts of a conversation with serial entrepreneur Stuart McClure, CEO of two companies, Wethos.ai (revolutionizing the future of work) and Qwiet.ai (ending cyberattacks by securing code). Stuart was a founder of Foundst…

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Sept. 14, 2024

From Product Manager to Product Leader - A conversation with Don Weinstein, xChief Product & Technology Officer, ADP

This article has excerpts of a wide-ranging conversation between Don Weinstein, former Chief Product & Technology Officer of ADP and Rahul Abhyankar, host of Product Leader's Journey. Don shares lessons learnt over his career about leadership, t…

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Sept. 7, 2024

Driving Innovation in Large Companies - A conversation with Raj Yavatkar, CTO Juniper Networks

This article contains lightly-edited excerpts of a conversation between Rahul Abhyankar, host of Product Leader’s Journey, and Raj Yavatkar, Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. It covers Raj's journey of driving innovation at Intel, …

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