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The 5 Best Gifts Product Management Can Give
Wrap up the 5 best gifts product management can give your cross-functional team this holiday season.


I Built an Amazing Strategic Plan - Now What?
Congratulations! You did it right this year - you clearly defined what success looks like, so the team knows what to strive for. You...


Activity Ownership is Critical to Innovate on Purpose
There are several self-inflicted roadblocks to purposeful innovation, and a big one is lack of clear ownership of the activities to...


GrandPad CEO Scott Lien Interactive Product Webinar: January 26th 1pm ET!
GrandPad: the Blueprint of Innovation on Purpose If you read my blog on the GrandPad, you remember what a terrific example it is of using...


A Service Failure Misteak
Service failures don't have to lose you customers, but this week I lay out in painful detail a relationship-killing service failure.


How to Retain Customers After a Service Failure: Minted Mints a New Fan in Spite of Late Delivery
Minted mints a new fan by handling a service failure well. What can B2B tech businesses learn from it?


Black Swan Series: Why Preparing for Future Black Swans Helps You Grow Today
When I first presented on the topic of battling Black Swans, a member of the audience asked, "if Black Swans are unknowable beforehand,...


Black Swan Series: Getting Market Input During the Crisis
The Black Swan has landed. Nobody expected it, but your customers are pushing aside business-as-usual activities to deal with it. They're...


Black Swan Series: Finding Opportunity in Black Swan Disasters
Third in the Black Swan Series: Black Swans are, by definition, unimaginable before they occur. They impact your business in complex,...


Four Ways to Avoid Failure to Scale
If innovation that fails to scale is “the proliferation of a thousand tiny flowers that don’t grow bigger over time,” how can you break...


Three Reasons We Fail to Scale
Moving from Innovation to Scale has confounded tech businesses forever. Why do we fail to scale?
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