Category: PRODUCTHEAD – Product management newsletter

PRODUCTHEAD is my free curated newsletter of the best articles, videos and podcasts from product leaders and commentators all over the world. All neatly packaged up in a weekly email delivery for your reading, viewing and listening pleasure. Curated by Jock Busuttil (jockbusuttil.com).

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» Dysfunctional overwork has been rebranded as a desirable attribute in some organisations

» Working at a slower, more natural pace actually increases productivity

» Continuous accesibility via mobile devices has eroded autonomy and increased stress

» AI means every organisation is facing their ‘Kodak moment’ right now

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» Learning their skills hands-on is the best way to appreciate specialists’ roles

» A good roadmap can be a valuable way of showing reliability and building trust

» CEOs fall on a spectrum of ‘only assigning work’ and ‘collaborating with staff’

» Master the genAI tools relevant to your skillset before someone less experienced makes you redundant

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» Defend against short-termism by making your team’s strategic thinking visible

» People are increasingly working to live, not living to work

» Teams should only split their Decision Stack when their answers to “How?” diverge

» Repetition and reward are intrinsic to behaviour change in teams

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» Rank stacking has fallen out of favour because it breeds internal sabotage and mediocrity

» Orgs drift between varying degrees of horizontal and vertical ‘coupling’

» We are arguably in 3 AI bubbles: speculative, infrastructure and hype

» Better methods than roadmaps exist when there’s a broad gap between vision and execution

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» Fight enshittification by encouraging interoperability and openness in your product ecosystem

» You can prove a concept by building something janky and cheap that shows it working for real

» OKRs do not exist in isolation – context, strategy and culture set the scene