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How I Use AI and Automation Daily
Why It’s the Best $ I Spend Each Month
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leadership
Why Every Professional Needs a Coach
And how to get your company to pay for it
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lean startup
Building a Startup on a Shoestring Budget
Most startups don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because they run out of cash.
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agile software development
Software Is Easy, It’s The People That Are Hard
Most product and engineering problems aren't technical. They're emotional, misaligned, or political.
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culture development
Scaling Product Management Across Time Zones
Distributed product teams are the new normal, but “new normal” doesn’t mean it’s easy.
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agile software development
Use a Rubber Duck, Save a Broken Project
Saying it out loud changes how you think
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culture development
Misaligned Incentives Are Almost Always Behind Misaligned Teams
More often than not, it’s incentives that are quietly screwing things up.
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culture development
How to Build a Kickass Team
Focus on Strengths, Not Fixing Weaknesses
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The DTC Dream Is Getting Punched in the Face
Warby Parker, Allbirds, Figs, Winc - these once high-flying DTC darlings are choking on their own growth.
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Why Chasing Benchmarks Will Kill Your Innovation
Most scaled products think they’re being strategic by studying competitors. What they’re actually doing is guaranteeing mediocrity.
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Coaching Is Not Therapy, a TED Talk, or a Pep Talk
It’s a Performance Accelerator
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A No-BS Guide to Spotting Overemployed Workers
More people are secretly holding two (or more) full-time remote jobs than you think. If it hasn’t hit your team yet, it probably will. Here’s how to detect it early, confirm it confidently, and deal with it without turning into a micromanaging nightmare.
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Most Decisions Are Two-Way Doors
Stop Overthinking Everything
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Use Quant and Qualitative Measures to Improve Conversion Rate
If tweaking your consumer platform’s conversion rate feels like guesswork, it’s because most teams only lean into half of what works.
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Product Management vs. Project Management
Product management and project management are not just different job titles - they deliver value in entirely different ways. If you lead product, engineering, or strategy, understanding this gap is critical.
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The Future of Marketplaces
Post-Purchase Opportunities and Concierges
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There’s a Line Between Fractional and Overemployment
Don't Cross It.
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Stuck in Your Own Head? How to Break the Ideation Loop
You know analysis paralysis. Your to-do list is full, your mind’s racing, and you’re still…not moving. This cycle hits even the sharpest founders, especially when you’re wired for execution but still lost in an ideation loop. Here’s how to spot it - and snap out of it - before it tanks your momentum
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Driving Results in 6-Month Engagements as a Fractional Leader
It’s possible to have a massive impact as a fractional leader - IF you keep it tight, clear, and execution-minded.
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What Your AI-Obsessed CPO Isn’t Telling You (Over Breakfast)
Winter is Coming
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Hiring the Top 1% When Recruiters Fall Short
If you want the best, don’t outsource it. Here’s how to actually hire game-changing talent when recruiters can’t get it done (and why almost everyone gets this wrong).
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From DIY to DIFM: How Consumer Behavior in Online Marketplaces is Changing the Game
Consumers are shifting from “do it yourself” to “do it for me,” and that behavior change is reshaping online marketplaces across industries, from travel and home services to car buying and investing.
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Product Risk Management Strategies
Learn techniques to identify, assess, and mitigate risks effectively.
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Effective Software Development Team Structure Tips
Learn how to design a strong software development team structure that drives success. Discover key strategies to build effective teams today.
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How to Create a Product Roadmap That Actually Drives Growth
Learn how to create a product roadmap that drives real results. Get proven strategies from product leaders to build roadmaps that succeed.
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Technical Leadership Skills to Transform Your Team
Boost your technical leadership skills with proven strategies from top engineering leaders. Learn how to build and lead winning teams today.
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The Product Launch Checklist
Ensure a smooth launch
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Leading from the Rear
When your time as a fractional or interim leader is winding down, your biggest impact happens from behind the curtain. This role shift can feel strange, but it’s the ultimate test of your leadership - helping your team thrive when you’re no longer front and center.
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Fostering the Right Environment for High-Potential Employees
Coaching Is the Unlock
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Graceful Exits
When it’s time for someone to move on, the way you handle those moments matters more than anything else. Done well, these transitions can strengthen your team’s trust, your reputation, and even the departing person’s next chapter.
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Navigating Executive Interpersonal Dynamics
A story about what happens when personalities clash at the top, and how the smartest teams keep working together anyway. Here are real lessons and positive ways to manage strong people, so everyone wins and the company stays ahead.
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Why Jeff Bezos’ Meeting Method Is the Best Way to Drive Real Innovation
You’re wasting time and talent in meetings - unless you do what Bezos does. Here’s how the right memo and a messy, honest discussion can make your meetings count (and spark breakthroughs).
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How to Improve Team Culture: 8 Proven Strategies
Learn effective ways on how to improve team culture with 8 research-backed tips to boost morale and collaboration.
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8 Essential Product Backlog Examples for 2025
Structure epics, user stories, and technical debt for better agile project management.
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Leadership in Change Management: Strategies for Success
Discover effective leadership in change management strategies that drive results and lead your team successfully through change.
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Building Effective Teams: Proven Strategies for Success
Learn key techniques for building effective teams. Discover expert insights to boost collaboration, trust, and performance today.
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7 Key Product Metrics to Track for Growth in 2025
Unlock growth by tracking the right data. The definitive list of 7 key product metrics with expert insights for software leaders and executives.
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Top Leadership Skills for Executives in 2025
Enhance your leadership skills for executives with 8 key strategies in 2025. Discover actionable insights to lead confidently and drive
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product management
Product Org Structure: Build Teams That Ship & Scale
Master product org structure with proven frameworks. Learn how top companies design cross-functional teams that deliver results and drive sustainable growth.
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Fractional Leaders Are Reshaping How We Scale
Let’s start with a scene I’ve watched a dozen times: A CEO with a mile-long to-do list, half-built
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agile software development
Building Trust with Your Leadership Team: Candid Debriefs
Let’s talk about the moment when the air in a room finally changes. You know it. It’s after
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product management
Career Ladder Examples: Learn How to Structure Growth
Beyond the Promotion: Architecting Meaningful Career Growth In a competitive tech market, retaining top software and product talent requires more
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leadership
Unlocking Potential
A company’s success hinges on the strength and adaptability of its leaders. HuntClub's Transformation Starts With Talent
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leadership
Top Leadership Skills for Executives in 2025
As an executive, strong leadership skills are crucial for success. This listicle delivers eight essential leadership skills for executives to
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product management
7 Key Product Metrics to Track for Growth in 2025
Beyond Vanity: The Metrics That Truly Define Product Success For executives and product leaders, distinguishing between vanity metrics and actionable
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management
Building Effective Teams: Proven Strategies for Success
Leading Teams That Actually Want To Follow You Traditional leadership models often emphasize command and control. However, building truly effective
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leadership
Leadership in Change Management: Strategies for Success
Why Your Leadership Makes or Breaks Change Initiatives Change is a constant in the business world. However, successfully navigating these
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product management
8 Essential Product Backlog Examples for 2025
A well-structured product backlog is the heartbeat of any successful agile team, transforming a simple to-do list into a strategic
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culture development
How to Improve Team Culture: 8 Proven Strategies
Building a Dream Team Starts with Culture Want a thriving team? It starts with culture. A positive culture improves how
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culture development
Why Jeff Bezos’ Meeting Method Is the Best Way to Drive Real Innovation
Let’s be honest - most meetings are just not good. They steal hours, drain energy, and rarely move the
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leadership
Navigating Executive Interpersonal Dynamics
A Tale of Ned and Jophrey Let’s set the scene. Picture an open floor plan, one of those rolling
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leadership
Graceful Exits
Almost every leader dreads the moment they realize a team member might no longer be in the right seat. It’
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culture development
Fostering the Right Environment for High-Potential Employees
Got a high-potential team member who’s ready for more? Get the environment right and coach them hard. This is
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fractional leadership
Leading from the Rear
Steering the Team Forward as You Transition Out I've been that guy walking into a team in flux,
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product management
The Product Launch Checklist
Why Your Product Launch Checklist Determines Market Success Let's be honest—launching a product without a structured approach
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management
Technical Leadership Skills to Transform Your Team
Why Yesterday's Code Heroes Become Tomorrow's Failed Leaders This image from the World Economic Forum illustrates
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product management
How to Create a Product Roadmap That Actually Drives Growth
Understanding What Makes a Product Roadmap Actually Work Let's get one thing straight: a product roadmap isn'
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agile software development
Effective Software Development Team Structure Tips
Why Most Development Teams Fail Before They Start Imagine two startups. Same funding, similar products, equally talented developers. Six months
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product management
Product Risk Management Strategies
Understanding Product Risk Management In Today's Business Reality Let's get one thing straight: product risk management
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marketplaces
From DIY to DIFM: How Consumer Behavior in Online Marketplaces is Changing the Game
I love watching innovation in online marketplaces - often because I’ve seen firsthand how a single shift in consumer
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culture development
Hiring the Top 1% When Recruiters Fall Short
Ever stare at a “top talent” resume and wonder, “Is this person really the game-changer, or just another ‘A player’
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growth
What Your AI-Obsessed CPO Isn’t Telling You (Over Breakfast)
Recently, I had black coffee, a bagel, and a haircut-level reality check with the Chief Product Officer of a vertical
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leadership
Driving Results in 6-Month Engagements as a Fractional Leader
Walking into a 6-month fractional exec role isn’t cozy. There’s no “let’s find our groove over quarters.
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lean startup
Stuck in Your Own Head? How to Break the Ideation Loop
The Story: When Smart Founders Get Stuck Overthinking Last week, I coached a technical founder who confided: “I move fast
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fractional leadership
There’s a Line Between Fractional and Overemployment
Fractional roles are a real tool for scaling fast and staying smart. Overemployment is something else - and it will
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marketplaces
The Future of Marketplaces
Marketplaces aren’t just about buying and selling anymore. The big wins - and the subtle traps - are happening
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agile software development
Product Management vs. Project Management
Once, I joined a product team and the CEO waved his hands over a job description that read “Product/Project
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digital marketing
Use Quant and Qualitative Measures to Improve Conversion Rate
Most teams I advise have tried to “move conversion” at least three times before they call me. They’ve got
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culture development
Most Decisions Are Two-Way Doors
You're Not Performing Brain Surgery. You're Just Picking a Button Color - for now. I once
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management
A No-BS Guide to Spotting Overemployed Workers
I've been writing a lot about overemployment lately as I think it's a trend that is
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management
Coaching Is Not Therapy, a TED Talk, or a Pep Talk
If you're treating coaching like it's just warm fuzzies or once-a-quarter check-ins, you're doing
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product management
Why Chasing Benchmarks Will Kill Your Innovation
Let me tell you how I lost six months of growth by following “industry standards.” We were revamping our onboarding
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digital marketing
The DTC Dream Is Getting Punched in the Face
The fall of DTC powerhouses isn’t just about bad luck. It’s a masterclass in what happens when growth
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culture development
How to Build a Kickass Team
Most managers waste time trying to “fix” people. That’s backwards. Great teams don’t happen because everyone is well-rounded.
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culture development
Misaligned Incentives Are Almost Always Behind Misaligned Teams
Let me tell you about a company that looked like it had it all: strong product team, experienced marketing, and
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agile software development
Use a Rubber Duck, Save a Broken Project
The time I nearly paid a branding agency $20K to rename... nothing A few years back, one of my teams
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product management
Scaling Product Management Across Time Zones
Death by Asynchronous Updates We were building a new monetization layer for a fast-scaling marketplace. The dev team was split
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agile software development
Software Is Easy, It’s The People That Are Hard
"This shouldn't take more than a sprint, right?" Great, famous last words. A startup CEO once
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lean startup
Building a Startup on a Shoestring Budget
You Don’t Need Permission or Funding to Start When I started my first real venture, I didn’t have
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leadership
Why Every Professional Needs a Coach
There’s a quiet shift happening in how ambitious professionals grow. The people who are truly accelerating in their careers
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fractional leadership
How I Use AI and Automation Daily
For the past 18 months, I’ve built AI into nearly every part of my work as a fractional exec
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leadership
When the Founder Leaves
Let’s be honest. When a founder or CEO leaves, nobody - and I mean nobody - in the company
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leadership
How to Develop Strategic Thinking Skills: Essential Tips for Leaders
Why Most Leaders Think They’re Strategic (But Aren’t) Let's be honest: a lot of executives think
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management
Lessons From Real Performance Management Conversations that Got Tricky
There’s this moment every manager dreads. You see one of your team slipping: missing deadlines, quality is off, or
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leadership
Directly Responsible Individuals
Building Real Accountability Into Product Teams To be effective in product management, you need a mix of traits: curiosity, empathy,
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product management
Product Strategy Framework: Your Complete Guide to Success
Why Most Product Teams Struggle Without Frameworks Imagine a group of talented musicians trying to jam without a shared understanding
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digital marketing
Framework for Growth: Building a System That Actually Works
Why Most Growth Strategies Fail (And What Actually Works) Let's be real, how often do those picture-perfect "
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culture development
How to Lead Your Team When It Feels Like The Ground Is Shifting
Let’s not dance around it - when a founder, CEO, or major leader leaves, especially in a tight-knit product
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marketplaces
Top Marketplace Growth Strategies to Boost Success
Understanding The Marketplace DNA: Building Your Foundation This screenshot of Amazon's homepage shows its massive product selection and
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management
How to Lead a Multi-Level Organization: Stop Controlling, Start Coaching
Making the jump to senior leadership sounds like a promotion. But for most technical leaders I coach, it feels more
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digital marketing
The Impact of AI Is Disrupting Traffic Acquisition and What to Do About It
Why Your Traffic Just Fell Off a Cliff This conversation sound somewhat familiar? “Our Google traffic is down 40%. Leads
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culture development
How to Define Organizational Leadership for Real Results
What Organizational Leadership Actually Looks Like in Practice While it’s easy to talk about organizational leadership in theory, its
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product management
The Complete Guide to the Product Management Career Ladder
Understanding Your Product Management Career Journey Think of climbing the product management career ladder like learning to conduct an orchestra.
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product management
Sustaining Momentum within Product Development Teams
For Product Owners, instilling a sense of urgency around the execution of roadmap within the product development team is a
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product management
Product Market Fit Validation
Understanding What PMF Validation Actually Looks Like Let's be candid: product-market fit validation is one of the most
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management
Empowering Managers without Disempowering Yourself
Let’s be straight: telling someone, “You’ve got this, I trust you” feels good. Actually stepping back as a
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growth
Innovating Within Constraints of a Public Company
When “Move Fast” Meets “Don’t Screw Up” If you’ve ever worked at a public company - especially in
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growth
Navigating Growth and Innovation in Saturated Markets
Start with the Ugly Truth Here’s what most people won’t tell you: It’s hard as hell to
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agile software development
Your Guide to Agile Maturity Assessment
An agile maturity assessment isn't a final exam—it's more like a compass for your team&
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agile software development
Your Agile Transformation Roadmap That Delivers Results
An agile transformation roadmap is a strategic plan that maps out the vision, goals, and steps for shifting your organization
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