Metadata
- Author: John Cutler
- Full Title:: TBM 355: Who Should Care?
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Company Culture, Data Culture, Product Management,
- URL:: https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-355-who-should-care
- Read date:: 2025-05-01
Highlights
On the one hand, you have positive things like bias to action, bias to customer-centricity, and bias to GSD. This is classic (positive) “founder mode” behavior in many ways—not worrying about the process, getting into the details that matter, and prioritizing forward momentum. You might want these things in a product manager and product leader.
The PM on my team always seems a bit impatient, and I like that. They are always pushing forward, super pragmatic, and don’t get bogged down. On the other hand, unless you have a strong central advocate for operational excellence and continuous improvement, you will likely end up with a company of competing pirate ships and pirate captains. Who treats the company and how it works as a product? Who provides the counter-motion to the pirate motion or defines the game multiple pirate captains can play? (View Highlight)