Four essentials of great 1:1 meetings
[Snack-sized graphic] Regular one-on-one meetings are essential to properly running a team. Here are the four guidelines I use to make mine effective.
Highlights
Cakes, not whisks
My screenplay for a gritty reboot of the old tale about drills and holes.
Harmony and Alignment
Music has much to teach us about defining a mission and getting teams to play in harmony.
Empathy as a core value
Leading thinkers tell us that empathic behavior in business actually improves your bottom line. So, what does empathy mean in product management?
Collaborative prioritization through live group stack ranking
Here's an easy technique to add to the PM toolbox that leads to immediate roadmap input from a variety of stakeholders, a greater feeling of involvement across your organization, and (surprisingly) consensus.
Great documentation and the TRS-80 CoCo
When I was a kid, the TRS-80 Color Computer blew my mind, but what really changed my life were the books that came with it. Where pedagogy and wonder meet, magic happens. What lessons can we take from this today?