Category: Product Marketing
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Men Who’ve Cried at Work
This is Chapter 3, Men at Work, from my well-reviewed book”Dads of Disability: Stories for, by, and about fathers of children who experience disability.”You can download other sample chapters and learn about the book and where to buy it on its website.
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It’s not about work-life balance… Actually LIVING helps work productivity!
One of my takeaways from a recent episode of Hidden Brain was the story about a young doctor who couldn’t keep up until she started to make time for herself. And once she did, she was able to actually get more done (and at a higher quality) as a doctor. Apparently, I have been doing the “before”…
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How working from home has been great for me (and my employer) #wfh
Written in 2019 BEFORE lockdown There are many formal and research-based articles and essays about working from home (#wfh) — Its advantages, disadvantages, and the kinds of people and roles that are suited for wfh. This essay isn’t one of those. It’s just a story with a “sample of one.” Your mileage may vary.
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Four things you learn when Microsoft bumps your work off an international stage
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…
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Four things to emphasize about machine learning solutions
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…
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Four “On the Cheap” Product and Content Marketing Research Strategies
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.