Product Management Articles

Here’s a question I ask in every product management workshop: “How much time did you spend with customers last month?”  […]

“We should build the thing the CEO mentioned in the hallway.”  “Sales promised this feature to close the deal.”  “The […]

Early in my career, I thought “politics” was a dirty word. I believed good work spoke for itself. I was […]

You need the engineering team to prioritize a critical customer fix. Marketing wants a better value proposition and more credible […]

Why Companies Invest in Training But Don’t Develop Capability  By Steven Haines  Founder, Business Acumen Institute and Sequent Learning Networks  […]

The success of any enterprise is based on two things: Its products and services, and its talent pool. Most firms […]

Change is hard. Being positive, calm, and logical in the face of change can feel downright impossible. Yet, the most […]

Successful business people are adept at strategic planning and execution, and therefore, it’s a given that this is a vital business acumen building block. With this, the process of planning and executing strategy appears fairly straight-forward: identify goals that position the company for future success and implement a plan to get there.