48: Mac or PC? You don’t have to pick a side
Remember how jarring change can be for people and actively work to soften the impact for them.
Remember how jarring change can be for people and actively work to soften the impact for them.
MOJ Digital wants to attract and recruit experienced professionals into the civil service on a permanent basis. We’re hiring for fifteen different job roles, including my role as head of product. Come and have a chat with us at Silicon Milkroundabout on 9th and 10th May to see what we’re all about.
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Wade Danielson, founder and host of the Entrepreneurs Library. Take a listen or read the full transcript.
“I’m about to launch a website selling scotch whisky. Can you offer any advice?”
Fancy a job as a product manager? Do you see yourself working in a hot start-up with a small, tight-knit team of specialists?
I’ll bet you never considered the Ministry of Justice as an option. You’re missing a trick – let me explain why.
After my general giddiness the other week, I can reassure everyone that I have regained a modicum of the reserve for which Brits are better known :-)
“Could give me some insight into your day-to-day duties and what the role might entail when working as a product manager at a startup?”
The day after its launch, The Practitioner’s Guide to Product Management became a best seller.
As you may be aware, I’ve written a book called The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management. It’s really a collection of stories from my own experience and others’ about how NOT to manage products. So if you just follow my Golden Rule (to ignore or do the opposite of everything I suggest), then you’ll be fine. Probably.
I’ve never enjoyed job interviews. The inane questions annoy me most.