John Cutler LinkedIn Posts

At the start of 2023, I decided to do something I've never done before: teach a paid workshop. Yes, I'm nervous. I've resisted

The easiest way to tell if your talking to someone who understands DevOps is they don’t talk about DevOps. They talk about systems

In my work at Amplitude, I've observed three versions of PLG.
1) PLG as tool chest,
2) PLG as motion and model, and
3)

Not all revenue is created equal:
good revenue vs. meh revenue vs. bad revenue

Good Revenue
-Differentiated and competitive.
-Sustained and recurring.
-Delivers high customer value.
-Fuels organic

Oof. Looks like a project I had all lined up starting next month may fall through. That means I'll be available for full

"The enterprise may talk about investing in "our people," and they may claim to embrace the idea of product thinking, but the primary

When I was involved in bike racing we had a saying:
"The goal is to be at the front of the race only when

Why does your strategy keeping changing?
1. What you are seeing is not a strategy. You are witnessing tactics masquerading as strategy. The tactics change

“In my work, I find that the rarest and most essential ingredient in designing successful processes is conscious experience. By conscious experience, I

"Humans shape environments, and environments shape humans. There is no dichotomy. Why is this important? If you observe closely, the structure vs. individual

"To be sustainably successful, the level of collaboration and alignment among managers or leaders in an organization must be equal to or greater

The Paradox: the same conviction which helps us push through the bumps in the road is the same conviction which can get us

5 Reasons Why Management Myths Persist:
1) Collective Inertia
2) Causal Ambiguity
3) Management Myopia
4) Self-perpetuating Myths
5) Selection Bias

An incredible talk by Freek Vermeulen.

Available!

Some things I like doing and helping with:
▶ Product strategy and strategy deployment
▶ Aligning finance and product around sustainable growth models
▶ Operating systems

When talking about teams, most people acknowledge a certain "chemistry" or "1+1=3" effect—that the sum is greater than the parts. This *appears* to

“I am not optimistic because designing in human agency to AI/ML [machine learning] based systems is not easy from an engineering point of

I am increasingly of the belief that “horizontal” and “vertical” is less important than relevant dimensionality and impact on the business model

Keep in mind that 5% of your salary/comp spend might = 30% of your "capacity". And 50% of your salary/comp spend might =

A big challenge more systems thinking types have is that when we are asked to "tell me who said that" they realize the

I've noticed one framework that rises above the rest when it comes to annual planning. It is called D.E.C.I.D.E.

I'm amazed more teams