The technical brilliance inside companies like Google is obvious. What’s much harder — and more valuable — is the discipline of building products that humans actually want to use. A recent piece, 21 …
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How Product Leaders Win Compliance Without Sacrificing Autonomy
Regulation isn't an obstacle to product autonomy — it's a design constraint. Treating it as a blockade that must be skirted will slow teams, increase risk and invite the very bureaucracy you’re trying …
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When OneDrive Behaves Like Ransomware: Lessons For Leaders
How do you explain to users that a vendor update quietly moved their files, then removed them — and that they had no meaningful way to opt out? If you follow product and platform behaviour closely, …
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Why Most Corporate Incubators Fail — and How Product Leaders Fix Them
Too many corporate incubators are built as theatre: glossy launch events, a handful of entrepreneurs-in-residence, and a slide deck full of future-state revenue curves. A year later most projects are …
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From Pilot to Product: How Product Leaders Turn AI Experiments into Durable Services
Too many AI pilots end up as well-intentioned slides or dusty prototypes. The technology gets praised, the metrics glow in a lab environment, and then the organisation asks the familiar question: why …
Fund the Product, Not the Project: How Leaders Make Funding Models Fuel Continuous Value
Why do the best digital initiatives flag six months in? Because too many organisations still fund an idea as a finite project rather than as an ongoing product. The result is predictable: teams stop …