The Product Leader’s Playbook

The Product Leader’s Playbook

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Toolkit Thinking: Don't Just Build Products. Build Frameworks.

Surface Area Thinking: What Are You Actually Building?

Platform Thinking for PMs: Build Once, Win Twice

Meetings as Strategy: Reclaiming the PM Calendar

From Signals to Systems: Building a Discovery Engine

Your AI Thought Partner: Thinking with Machines

The Trust Loop: Why Velocity Depends on Credibility

Product Culture Is Built in the Small Stuff

Influence Without Authority Isn't Enough: You Need Leverage

Feature Throttling: The Art of Controlled Rollouts

The Prioritization Portfolio: Don't Stack-Rank. Allocate.

The Strategy Stack: Vision Isn't a Slide, It's a System

The Product Leadership Stack: From IC to Executive Influence

Building for Leverage: How Great PMs Design Compounding Products

Metrics That Matter: Stop Measuring What You Shipped

Product Strategy Isn’t a Deck. It’s a Set of Decisions.

Product Debt: The Hidden Cost of Saying Yes Too Often

The Validation Gap

The Myth of the MVP: What “Minimum Viable” Really Means

Post-Launch Clarity: When to Pivot, Persevere, or Kill a Feature

Exiting the Roadmap Rut

The Output Trap (and How to Escape It)

The Focus Loop: How Great PMs Say No to Move Faster

Speed vs. Quality Isn’t a Tradeoff - It’s a Feedback Loop

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