My Leadership

As a product leader, I have a clear expectation of how my product organization should work and collaborate to achieve results.

Here's my product leader DNA:

• I am a coaching leader and put learning first: I coach my directs and I offer free mentoring for product managers - both within and beyond my organization. I also help product managers on Reddit
• I lead with transparency and structure:
• Product management is about shaping great collaborations. And to make them great, the most important thing is clear expectations. A simple document that you draft together and revise regularly can be enough.
• I take people management and lateral leadership very seriously: only a good product team can reach big goals, not the leader and not one product manager alone. How do I do it? Have async Kanban boards to help directs to move topics, over-offer hel and have weekly one-on-one with everyone you lead – and come prepared. See this article about how I do that.
• I lead asynchronously: This saves both sides hours and hours of meetings and headspace to think deeply. Here is my guideline for async leadership.
• I am very technical (I have been programming for 10+ years), I ask more questions than giving answers and I have the mindset of hypothesis → test → learn. I also expect these three traits from a good product manager.