Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. You have annual quotas, quarterly goals, and increasing competition. How will your unit’s monthly, quarterly, and annual goals change as a result? When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. Hire to train.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

They want to seize on the promise of AI, machine learning, and people analytics to improve business results and enhance their career prospects. Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11