John Cutler LinkedIn Posts

Stop trying to standardize and simplify product management. 1) You'll fail, 2) It is a feature, not a bug, and 3) you can

I had a really great time chatting with Ben Erez, Marc Baselga, and Joshua Herzig-Marx on the Supra podcast.

We discussed one of

If limiting work in progress *actually* solved the underlying problem, more companies would do it. Which gives us a clue about the underlying

Awesome afternoon brainstorm with ✨ Büşra Coşkuner on why some people/companies use PRDs and why some don't.

One thing that PMs are navigating at the moment is that the "profile" that served them well a couple years ago (impact seeking,

"I sincerely believe you can remain relatively "flat" while working remotely. Some companies pull it off. But it requires a whole new set

Without theoretical knowledge, you lack a foundation to understand why things work.

Without hands-on experience, you lack the insight to understand how things work

You often hear teams use terms like “empowered,” “effective,” “collaborative,” “customer-centric,” “product-led,” or “psychologically safe.” However, when you ask people to describe what

"For the overthinker (it’s me, I’m the problem), grappling with past failures and the inherent uncertainty of the future, systems and complexity thinking

Big Team Topologies fan (and fan of Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (Team Topologies) 🇺🇦 🇵🇸). Question for folks who have used TT

Just because a template is "simple" doesn't mean you can't convey a lot of nuance and complexity. Consider this MadLib:

There are three forces

If your strategy involves trusting someone will not do what they openly say they will do (or will be prevented somehow from doing

Phew. That was a tough 60m book pitch shark tank while on my daily walk. An LLM can be a brutal judge. Bonus...I

With all the talk on flattening orgs and layers, I thought it would be interesting to deep dive on the various reasons orgs

Something people don’t talk about … the pressure for short term outcomes isn’t always top down (or investor led). Sometimes it is driven

Critical concept: constructed dependencies. Here's how they work:

Leader believes “X is key to high performance.” This belief doesn’t come from hard evidence but

One thing I miss about in-person ... the opportunity to teach important concepts in the kitchen / coffee-break room.

Guess the spelling mistake....

"It is ironic because if there was ever a time to use the word agility, it would be now. Yet the idea of organizational

A critical metric/consideration is the % of time managers need to spend managing "outside" their immediate team and peers. In this real world