In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management. His argument: break any task, however complex, into its constituent movements, optimise each one, and assemble the …
We’re Hiring Product Managers for the Last Decade
The product manager skills we use to hire were built for a version of the job that no longer exists. Not outdated in the way that job descriptions lag reality by a year or two. Structurally wrong: …
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Agentic AI for Product Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
After 25 years leading product and technology teams, I thought I understood technology cycles. The hype, the overpromise, the disappointment, the slow maturation into something genuinely useful. I …
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Agentic AI won’t fix your product leadership — it will expose it
Your product team just announced they are building an agentic system. You feel that familiar unease — the one you felt during the Agile roll-out that never really stuck, the data lake that became a …
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What AI Didn’t Replace in Product Management
"The skills I cultivated for 15 years are now available for free." David Pereira wrote that this week, and it landed harder than most PM hot takes do. Not because it's provocative. Because it's …
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The IC Renaissance
For most of my career, your impact grew as you increased your team's headcount. If you wanted to do more, you had to manage more. Senior meant managing people who managed people. The org chart was the …