Only if you accept that poison can also be a gift, then the answer is yes, otherwise it is a big no. Now, you may have heard this term many times already: “Feedback is a gift.” Well, it can be, just like anything else in life. The air we breathe…

Such a clickbait headline, right? I know… But for me, this is a personal matter as I have dealt with many orgs that try to apply the Spotify model for an unknown reason. The first question I ask is: Why? The answer is most of the time: We are scaling…

Everyone was laughing at meetings, from an outside eye, things were perfect. When observed, there was nothing wrong at all. Yet, things were not getting delivered, goals were always missed, misunderstandings between people taking place, and so on… What was happening? Does this sound familiar to you as well? If…

Almost every single new manager I met falls into this trap. It is not just a trap that keeps you captive, at the same time it has a huge impact on your team. Let’s start with early symptoms. Since I am working in IT, I will try to explain this…

Oh boy, I was in a meeting with my CTO and jr. Engineering Manager. EM said we are refactoring 80% of the code we write every month. I was shocked by that sentence and repeated it first in my head then out loud. “You are writing code to refactor them…

There are multiple books providing tons of suggestions about how to be effective and efficient. I am not going to repeat them as some of them I find ridiculous. Here, I will just put the stuff that I have tested and worked on me. 1- Day Dreaming This requires a bit…

I am, actually now used to be, a big fan of the word “Alignment”. Having worked in the tech industry in management roles for over a decade now, I concluded that alignment was the key in each organization I have worked for. This changed recently. I was doing research about…

Working in tech, dealing with different organizations as a consultant, I came to a realization that people are looking for solutions like pills. “Give me something that works today!”. People are either done trying or not interested in giving a thought to things going on. Therefore, people seek very structured…

Oh, fancy titles. Here in tech and product, you can have multiple big heads. But nowadays most important ones outside of the enterprise level are CTOs and CPOs. The general conception is CPO is responsible for product ie: what and why; CTO is responsible for simply “how”. …