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Make Things That Matter — 82 episodes
Itamar Gilad: the GIST of product discovery
Steve Portigal: Improving your user research process
Christian Idiodi: Telling the story of transformation
Martina Hodges-Schell: Understanding your operating model
Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model
Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products
(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing
Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product
Nacho Bassino: How to build your first product strategy
Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams
Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change
MJ Jastrebski: How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a CPO
Thank you, and a brief update
Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey
Adam Thomas: Operationalizing your product strategy
Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition
Double click on the love
Petra Wille: Building a community of practice
Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory
Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad
5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches
DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks
#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment
#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life
#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career
#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift
How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?
#54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization
#53: Turning over a tough year
#52 How to get more creative flow in your work day
#51 Two years in: Making things that matter
#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses
#49: Thoughts on entrepreneurship and philanthropy
#48 ARM redux: 4 nuances of fulfilling work
#47 Matt Kressy: Love as creative fuel
#46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary
#45: The Timeless Way of Leading
#44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets
#43 Courtney Bigony: Life above neutral with Positive Product Design
#42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work
#41 Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation
#40 Eric Steege: Treat your culture like a product
#39 Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle in organizations
#38 Sarah Avenir: What is people-first growth?
#37 C Todd Lombardo: Ask better questions to unlock clarity
#36 Michael O'Bryan: The mechanics of our humanity
#35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves
#34 Will Toms: The power of creative community
#33: 8 Lessons Learned in 2020
#32 Alex Hillman: How to play the long game of business
Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams
#30 Natalie Nagele: Building a people-first company at Wildbit
#29: One year of the podcast! And a new show name.
#28 Rob Walling: Build a great business and let that be enough
Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader
David Dylan Thomas: Understanding cognitive bias
#25 Karl Kuhnert: How to find strength in vulnerability and live your values as a leader
#24 Laura Garnett: Find your zone of genius and never fear a job search again
#23 Soushiant Zanganehpour: Solving systemic problems with social entrepreneurship
Pam Fox Rollin: Be a leader who helps people come alive
#21: April Dunford - Find your power in the market through positioning
#20: Nilofer Merchant — Unleashing Onlyness to benefit from the ideas and potential in every person
#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic problems with entrepreneurship
#18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking
#17 Dr Matthew Cook: Identity shifts, beating trauma triggers, and continually recreating who you are
#16 Holly Hester-Reilly: Building a customer-centric team and product culture
#15 Sam Fankuchen: Leadership and responding to the needs of the world in a time of crisis
#14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life
#13 Muriel Clauson: Identity, engagement, and being ready for the future of work
#12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 2)
#11 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 1)
#10 Susan Basterfield: decentralized team structures and participatory decision-making
#9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
#8 Paula Daniels: Living on the edge of your own invention
#7 Becky Baybrook: culture, candor, and how Millenials are changing management
#6 Barry Brown: Shaping the shapers
#5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization
#4 Marshall Mosher: tough product calls & acclimating to fear
#3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams
#2 Barry O'Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change
#1 May Lindstrom: The power of having a North Star