
85: Thriving in a Product Led Organization
How To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
The Challenges of a Product Lead Organization
Samaya: One of our homework assignments from Talk on Product Lead a few weeks ago was to read Todd Olson's, the Product Lead Organization. What I took away from it was that a product led organization tries to solve all the problems with products. Is that a fair takeaway in your assessment as well? And do you see any challenges or problems with that mindset? Michael: Like all things, definitely modulation is critical. But I do think there's a lot of challenges that, especially in like enterprise tooling where historically have been very focused on a sales-led motion. The latter aspect of these kind of consumer prosumer type facing products are more primed towards building net new capabilities and helping users