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A brief memoir of my days as a barkeeper (and why ex-barkeepers make great employees)
Cocktail Group – by kurmanstaff. Over the years since I finished high school I’ve had the immense good fortune to work with a handful of remarkable people who have inspired me deeply; who have mentored me and taught me an incredible amount about myself. The first of these was not a CEO or a VP;…
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5 viral product marketing myths
“Go Viral” by Tom Fishburne. Everybody’s saying it… “Let’s make it go viral!” “We need to build in some virality.” “It should be more viral!” The problem I have encountered often recently is that many people seem to have various misconceptions about what ‘viral’ really is, what it really means – but mostly how easy…
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Dear NULL
It’s a simple thing to get someone’s name right. Yousendit had an opportunity. They had my email address from whenever I had signed up to their service in order to download some file or another. I knew the service and trusted it enough to sign up, and if I had left my email address, I…
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Seeing the future
I found a great quote from the book Meta Products (Rubino, et al) on what makes future thinkers and innovators good at innovating, and I just had to share it: “We’ve studied the ideas of some of the well-known futurologists and innovators such as Juan Enriquez, Steward Brand and Katherine Fulton among many others, and…
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The Product Vision
The Complete Product Owner Act I: The Product This post is part of the “Complete Product Owner” series. The centre-piece for any product team – the guiding north star – is the product vision. Where are we going? Why? What do we do when we get there? How will we know when we get there?…
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Attention to detail
Homer: It’s nothing big; it’s just a lot of little things. Scorpio: Homer, you can’t argue with the little things. It’s the little things that make up life. In the biography written by Walter Isacsson, Steve Jobs recalls watching his father paint the posts for the picket fence in the yard of their Cupertino home…
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The Competitive Landscape
The Complete Product Owner Act I: The Product This post is part of the “Complete Product Owner” series. Products never exist in a vacuum. Products live in a world of competitors and partners, of peripherals, networks and enablers. Products live inside an ecosystem consisting of companies, governments, regulators and consumers. To understand what your product…
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Beyond the flat digital map: what’s next for digital map services
Babylonian map of the world, dated around 6BC. Source: Wikipedia The map has come a long way since the Babylonians carved pictographic maps of their surroundings on large chunks of stone. Ever since the appearance of the first digital maps many companies and products have appeared with the mission to produce better quality, more complete…
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Cracking eggs
They say you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. That’s true. You can, however, make an omelet without smashing eggs and getting egg-shells throughout the whole meal. The act of breaking the eggs open is a controlled, thoughtful act. It’s not panic. When you’re working on a new product strategy, fixing a…
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The Product Definition
The Complete Product Owner Act I: The Product This post is part of the “Complete Product Owner” series. A product owner is the owner of a product: so it makes sense to start our exploration of the product owner role with defining the actual product. What is it? What does it do? What value does…