The usual case for t-shaped skills is made in terms of optionality: the more domains you know something about, the more flexible you are, the more roles are available to you. This is true but not the …
Rebuilding Your T
When a technical leader decides they need to "build broader skills," the usual move is predictable. They sign up for a course. They read a book on the adjacent discipline. They add a few keywords to …
The T-Shaped Professional in the Age of AI
Here is the advice most people are getting right now: take courses, get certified in AI tools, learn to prompt, add “AI experience” to your CV. None of this is wrong, but it may address …
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We’re Hiring Product Managers for the Last Decade
The product manager skills we use to hire were built for a version of the job that no longer exists. Not outdated in the way that job descriptions lag reality by a year or two. Structurally wrong: …
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Agentic AI for Product Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
After 25 years leading product and technology teams, I thought I understood technology cycles. The hype, the overpromise, the disappointment, the slow maturation into something genuinely useful. I …
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Agentic AI won’t fix your product leadership — it will expose it
Your product team just announced they are building an agentic system. You feel that familiar unease — the one you felt during the Agile roll-out that never really stuck, the data lake that became a …
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