Do you feel like your job title is “Product Manager” and all you do is features you’ve been told to do by management? Here are 6 ways to regain your ownership and initiative: 1) Speak up! — Let’s start with making sure your manager and the command chain are aware…

Do you fear that the “Product Manager” position you are applying for may not be what it is labeled to be? Here are my 6 red flags that would prevent me from applying. The 4th one is really crushing: 1) “You will lead the development team” While this is not a…

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Do you find it hard to find the balance between stakeholders and the tech team’s requests? Only with the right balance of both can you achieve sustainable growth! Here are 8 ways to achieve that: 1) Make your product plans transparent The more the tech team knows what you plan to…

I will say what no one else is saying: orange “Top Voice” labels are worthless and misleading at best… Where do they come from? Why are they misleading? Hear it from Top Product Management Voice: Let me just say that this is not a rant, but a constructive Product critique…

Don’t worry if you messed up a job interview! I’ve once overslept for a late afternoon interview call with Netflix! You won’t do worse than me :) Let me tell you the full story: It was at the beginning of the year, a few weeks after I was laid off…

Do you tend to have horrible Mondays that break all your plans and expectations? Here are 8 ways to stay strong, positive and have a productive week after all: 1) Select 1–3 goals for the week There will be 20,000 critical priorities on your agenda and nothing you do will change…

I don’t know about you, but I sometimes feel that collecting user feedback is a waste of time if I don’t get to act on it. Thus, here are 8 ways to make it meaningful and actionable: 1) Make it a part of your product’s culture If you keep talking…

Do you think company culture is some BS made up by management? Well, there is a difference between “management-mandated” culture, and the actual culture coming from employees. Let me explain: If you ever worked in a bigger company, or better yet, a multinational corporation, you might have seen “Company Values”…