Every leader knows the rush of inspiration: the all-nighter, the surge, the just one more thing moment. Last week, I shared one of mine: the 48-hour build that became the first version of my Beyond Incremental website. But breakthroughs don’t come from bursts of energy alone. They come from creating systems that make that energy repeatable. […]
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My daughter got it right: “Wow, that was quick.” I’d just told her I built the first version of my website in 48 hours. What I didn’t mention initially was that I barely slept during those two days. Which led to the obvious question: Why do we do that? This Is […]
Beyond Incremental: The Journey Revealed A Behind-the-Scenes Look at 12 Weeks of Writing in Public For the past 12 weeks, you’ve been receiving newsletters about leadership breakthroughs, scaling yourself, and creating category-defining impact. Last week, I mentioned I was writing a book. Today, I want to show you what we’ve […]
You don’t win by building a better product than the competition. You win by creating a space where competition doesn’t exist. That’s category creation: not improving what’s already there, but building the market around a problem only you can solve. Most product leaders aren’t doing this.They’re professional optimizers. Making things […]
It’s easy to fall into the trap of blindly following frameworks that ‘everyone’ says work. But what happens when those frameworks hold you back instead of pushing you forward? Frameworks are the training wheels of problem solving. Think about when you first learned to ride a bike. Training wheels helped […]
Especially with the never-ending stream of product releases, teams can get lost and lose track of the reason they are building the product in the first place. Like a beacon in the fog, a clear and compelling vision can guide them through the numbing repetition of endless product updates. However, […]