Vulnerability is one of the secrets to a successful team. Teams without vulnerability struggle to work together because they don’t know or trust each other. Achieving vulnerability-based trust is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It …
Teams
Missionaries vs Mercenaries
As a product leader do you want to have a team that is there for the paycheck or the product and the customers? Does the product team you lead consist of missionaries or mercenaries? As Marty Cagan puts it: “Teams of missionaries are engaged, motivated, have a deep understanding of the business context, and tangible …
Building Empowered Teams
As a product leader, if we want to build an empowered, accountable product team there are 3 areas we need to look at: Are they given a meaningful, hard problem to solve for the business and its customers? Do they have a clear objective? Do they know what success looks like, and are they committed to …