There are some products people can’t stop talking about. There are other products that no one notices. They are invisible. Why is that? People talk about Apple’s products for months before they’re launched. They even speculate on unannounced products that Apple might create. When Apple launches a

Have you ever worked for months on a product that achieved no success? I know I have. And it’s incredibly frustrating. What does it take to really succeed? To build a product that is truly remarkable? A product with raving fans? A product with 25,000,000 Twitter followers

Great product managers score off the charts in listening, learning, leading, analyzing, anticipating and re-imagining. Among other things. How do you interview for that? Get it wrong and your new hire might be shifting your business into neutral. Or worse yet, reverse. Problem is, there are no standard best practices

This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions series. Steve Jobs said that “no matter how smart you are, to be successful you need a team of great people“. Do you surround yourself with great people? The difference between a good hire and a great

This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions series. What does it take to be the best? The best product strategist? The best product designer? The best technical innovator? The best product manager? Malcolm Gladwell would tell you it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate

This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions series. Okay, show of hands. Who else is tired of resumes that overstate accomplishments? And as if overstatements aren’t bad enough—don’t forget about the blatant lies found on the resumes of some senior executives.

This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions series. You’ve always heard that you should hire the smartest product managers you can. Some even say you should only hire people that are smarter than you. But what does all this really mean? Should you