“Let’s get several stakeholders together to gather feedback on our product strategy and exchange ideas.” It sounds so constructive and positive, right?
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Product Management Meets Pop Culture
Welcome to Product Management Meets Pop Culture, or PMMPC for short. This is my blog where we use movies, comics, and other pop culture ephemera to illustrate product management lessons that anyone can start using immediately.
Dive right in, won’t you?
Top 12 Product Management Insights From 2018
With 2018 rapidly coming to a close, let’s take a moment to look back at this year’s top product management insights coupled with a parade of pop culture highs and super depressing lows.
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The Genius Of He-Man’s Mini Comics Illustrates The Importance Of Thinking On Your Feet
Every day, you’re inventing something. The faster your can generate, collate, and evaluate ideas to get at a solution, the more successful you’re going to be…
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Product Management Interview With Alicia Dixon
“To be successful in product, you need to evolve and adapt.” – Alicia Dixon Welcome to our continuing series of candid, one-on-one interviews with product management professionals! In the spotlight today is Alicia Dixon, Senior Product Manager at Hilton Worldwide. How did she move from fashion design to digital payments? […]
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The Rebirth of Optimus Prime in Transformers: Generation 2 Shows How Product Managers Can Scale Themselves
Even with his team of Autobots and the power of the Matrix inside his chest, Optimus realizes that he can’t win this fight on his own. He needs to recruit help — create a shared vision with them — and distribute power and control to achieve that vision. Given how many times Optimus gets physically thrashed in this series, clearly, there’s risk in this approach.
But if you’re going to scale, you have to take some calculated risk.
Comics Legend Steve Ditko Illustrates The Importance Of Properly Framing Your Product Decisions
He rarely gave interviews. But his work speaks volumes. And his ability to frame a scene to make it instantly understandable could help us make better product decisions.
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