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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
» Services are inherited, messy, and rarely a clean slate
» There are different types of prioritisation, and we should consider them in combination
» The knowledge economy is being upended by genAI
» Why is it so hard to forecast return on investment (ROI) for a product?
» ROI is not the only measure of product value
» You can take account of uncertainty in your estimates in a systematic way
» 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
» 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
» Product managers have to fill the gap when strategy is absent
» When taking a decision, first consider how reversible it it is
» Communities of practice evolve through different stages, which need different approaches
» 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
» People are rarely idiots — assume they’re rational actors with good intent
» Sometimes you have to compromise on finding the ideal job
» What truly differentiates you from the rest of the market when anyone can build anything?
» A PM’s vibe coded prototype is just another way to dictate requirements to the team
» Just because you can build features more quickly doesn’t mean you should build them
» Greater strategic discipline than ever is needed to build worthwhile products
» AI may help you ship faster, but validating what you shipped still takes time
» In large complex organisations, transparent, written communication helps to avoid misinterpretation
» A strategy is just a wishlist if you never actually follow through on a decision
