Product Therapy

Discover the value of product sense and how anyone can develop it. Explore characteristics like humility, curiosity, and empathy. Learn how to leverage resources within your company to build product sense. Find out how biographies and learning from others can enhance your product sense.

Discussing the mindset behind empowered product teams, focusing on the value of ideas, cross-functional skills, and collaboration. Highlights include Steve Jobs' insights, handling disagreements, involving engineers in discovery, and winning team support. Emphasizes the importance of problem discovery over solution discovery, fostering innovation through friction, and empowering engineers for efficiency.

The podcast explores the concept of agency in the workplace, discussing symptoms of a lack of agency, real-life coaching examples, and tips for fostering agency as a leader. It emphasizes the importance of empowered teams, invoking care, and practicing stronger agency for meaningful work. The discussion dives deep into the mindset, behavior, and personal growth required for successful product leadership, highlighting the role of genuine care in product development and the need for experienced coaches in empowered environments.