Author: Gary M. Dietz

Two market crashes ago, I was a Senior Product Manager at a really cool startup founded by some genius MIT folks. An innocuous phone call came in to our marketing manager, a non-specific request from a mid-level person. Someone wanting to speak with our Product Manager. Our marketing manager gave me the number and the…

When I was very young, I remember my grandmother interceding in a heated financial argument between my parents by loudly lamenting “get rid of that damn calculator, it’s ruining everything!” That’s the earliest example I can remember when a tool, rightly or wrongly, jammed up a process. I’m pretty sure that the calculator didn’t give…

Our emotional product manager, product marketer, and content marketer brains want to have high quality, effective, extensively leveraged content and programs that come in under budget (or have trivial budget). We want it all.

Without biological diversity, a fish tank will not thrive and all life will die. (And if it doesn’t die, it will certainly not thrive.)

Here are a series of icebreakers and activities that you can do (or adapt, depending on the collaboration tools you use) to help build true interaction between remote teams. And not kill them with PowerPoint.