The Grand Adventure
One of the benefits of going to a top school is having very talented professors. The best have a way of describing a concept so simply and “matter of factly” that it sticks with you forever. When I attended Emory’s Goizueta school, one of those professors was Dr. Jagdish Sheth, known to his students as […]
I just got through with a very aggravating experience trying to book a rental car from Hertz. I’m joining a few fellow Beechcraft Bonanza pilots in Florida in a few weeks to practice formation flying. Every year we practice taking off, flying, and landing in close formation, in preparation for our trip to Oshkosh, Wisconsin […]
I was surprised to find out that open-source software goes back all the way to the 1950s and 1960s. I think most people think of Linux when they think of open-source. Linus Torvalds made a big splash when he released Linux in 1991, and in my opinion marks the modern day open-source movement. I was […]
I’ve always thought of product management and product market management as as superset of project management. I believe it is one of the foundational skills of a competent product manager. There is a direct correlation of risk reduction to the organization by the increased project management skill level of product managers. What are the primary responsibilities […]
I was recently talking with some thought leaders on the subject of increased value to customers as a result of a merger. The general consensus was that mergers are usually great for Wall Street, but maybe not so great for the combined customer base and usually presented problems for the combined company cultures. There was […]
I keep seeing tons of press around Google and what it plans to do with Motorola in terms of Android. I had an epiphany today that the real value of Motorola’s assets to Google is in the IPTV space. It’s a shame they only bought Motorola Mobility. There are really only three “types” of handsets […]
Amazon, Apple, the razor and the blade
This is an awesome book, and I wish I had read it long ago before I co-founded a couple of technology companies. This book is equally valuable to product marketing managers and marketing managers as they assess their markets, and seek to fill the gaps in their offerings. The biggest premise, and perhaps the best […]