Think It Build It Ship It Tweak It - a Business Fable
A practical fable for running business initiatives as evidence-based bets using a right-to-left Think/Build/Ship/Tweak flow.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Tackling Projects in a Product Operating Model World - Aka Herding Wildcats Down Waterfalls
Projects are second-class citizens in a Product Operating Model — until a strategic cross-product initiative shows up. How to manage projects without reverting to waterfall while preserving product team empowerment.
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Company as a Product
Jason Fried, Dharmesh Shah, and other founders on treating the organization itself as a product — continuously discovered, iterated, and improved with the same discipline as your customer-facing products.
Read more →Transformation Blues - Fighting the nice-to-have cave of pain with Must Have and Case Studies
Why transformation initiatives lose momentum: the shift from burning platform to nice-to-have. How to keep organizational change alive after the initial crisis passes.
Read more →Situational Leadership: Balancing Involvement and Ownership
A founder can't own everything — but checking out isn't the answer either. A practical taxonomy for deciding when to Own, Coach, Delegate, or Learn based on strategic importance and your own expertise.
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Lazy engineers leverage the Product Operating Model
Why the best engineers push for a product operating model: autonomy, clear ownership, and the end of endless coordination overhead. The engineer perspective on organizational design.
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