A program manager reached out to me for advice for a 1:1 meeting with her company's Chief Product Officer. She is less than two months into her new role at the company. She wanted to know how to approach it.I asked her what she was planning to talk …
Product folks love to debate about existential topics about their own roles! I had largely ignored everything about whether Product Management is or is not dead, until I learnt about Moravec's Paradox. If you are one of those who believe Product Man…
"I want to be a Product Manager." I get this all the time from MBA students. When I ask them what kind of PM they want to be, or what problems they want to solve, I get silence.Here's the analogy I use.Saying "I want to be a PM" is like saying "I wa…
Season 3 of Product Leader's Journey wrapped up this month with great product leaders sharing insights into their challenges and strategies. If you missed an episode, you can find below.S3E1: Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President & CEO, SolarWindsS…
This article is a lightly-edited summary of the conversation between Inbal Shani and Rahul Abhyankar . This conversation was recorded in May 2024 when Inbal was Chief Product Officer of GitHub. She is currently Chief Product Officer of Twilio. Havi…
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 …
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…
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…
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…