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Posted onJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020Learning

38 Lessons over 38 Years

No sudden wisdom has dawned on me. No life-altering epiphanies. Birthdays come and birthdays go. This will be just another day and the start of…

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Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020Frameworks

Exit Cost in Products

A lot has been written about defensibility and moats in businesses. Strategists talk about barriers to entry (resources, patentable technology and processes, expertise, capital) in…

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Posted onMarch 26, 2020March 27, 2020Frameworks

The Product Managers of the Mahabharat

Over a meeting, someone recently asked me to describe the archetype of a product leader. While I answered the question, a broader thought stayed with…

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Posted onFebruary 24, 2020February 24, 2020Story Stack

Here be Dragons

This is the second in a series of essays focused on the future of storytelling: the “Story Stack”. The first one was on the movie…

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Posted onFebruary 19, 2020February 19, 2020Frameworks

The Possession – Awareness Quadrant – the Evolution

I recently shared the Possession-Awareness Quadrant framework with a hall full of PMs in the form of a 20-minutes-long talk followed by a quick Q&A…

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Posted onFebruary 5, 2020February 24, 2020Story Stack

Cut to the Chase

I am working on a series of essays focused on the future of storytelling: the “Story Stack” – an entire ecosystem that I see developing…

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Bars of Soap
Posted onJanuary 22, 2020December 11, 2020Product Management Lessons

Value Propositions – a Lesson from a Ring-Toss Game

I have been going through a friend’s notes from his favourite classes at NYU’s Stern business school. The notes from Professor Glenn Okun’s classes stand…

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Posted onJanuary 13, 2020February 19, 2020Frameworks

The Possession – Awareness Quadrant

One of the ways in which organizations and individuals can assess areas of strength, possible opportunities and blindspots is by plotting their personal and group attributes/ qualities on the Possession – Awareness Quadrant.

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Posted onJanuary 8, 2020January 22, 2020Storytelling

Chasing Dogs

The power of distraction and going off on tangents

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Posted onJanuary 26, 2016January 20, 2020Product Management Lessons

Parenting and Product Management: Speed vs Haste

People who build products and run them live learn some lessons the hard way. For example: speed and haste are not to be confused with…

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Posted onJuly 12, 2015January 20, 2020Learning

Enlightened Self-Interest

One attribute of our education/ social system that has always bothered me is the unnecessary competition that schools and parents foster amongst the children. It…

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Posted onMarch 31, 2015January 20, 2020Learning

Why I Learn

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Attributed to Mark Twain (not verifiable) I grew up in a household with two…

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