leadership

Prod MBA was founded by Henry Latham, a product leader based in Berlin, with a small team of product wizards based in Germany & Croatia. We…

How startup teams undermine their own success I’ve worked in early-stage product teams for a number of years now, and observed the different…

Let me start with a simple question: Does your team engender effective decision-making? Do you believe that modern work culture engenders…

Anxiety is, unfortunately, an inevitable part of the experience when building a business. The uncertainty, the infinite different outcomes…

A client sends in a feature request. The business team rush to make it happen & force it upon the product team. “This is the most important…

I step out into the street of sunny Buenos Aires, pretty intimidated by being in South America for the first time in my life. As such, I…

The natural world shows us countless examples of the need for patience. Look at the way a leopard stalks its prey. It moves ever nearer…

Yesterday I had a bit of a dwell. One of those thinking-about-things-in-the-past-that-pissed-you-off-but-are-completely-irrelevant-now…

There has been such a radical shift in human behaviour since the advent of the digital age that we seem to have forgotten one of humanity’s…

As a society, we shy away from death. Even the word is a bit alarming. It’s just not talked about. People find it uncomfortable. Yet I’ve…

The biggest problem I find myself facing is choice. We are so used to living in a society over-whelmed by choice that when it comes to…

Differentiating Urgency & Importance The frustrating reality of work is that most of what you do is a complete waste of time. Even…

The Ground Floor It’s hard to judge when you are are doing a good job and when you are not. When you are mediocre, or when you are excelling…

Anyone starting a company knows — or at least should know — the power of story-telling. A product — let’s say an ice cream brand — could…

We tend to focus on the small things & ignore the big things. When building a product, we skip over the problem in our excitement to build a…

You can bring in new leadership to radically transform a company. Pay a consultancy firm millions to point out flaws you already see. Put…

I look around me & see people just going through the motions. It is action by rote, rather than by creating something new. In a new startup…

What is the most important thing to you right now? This question should be an integral part of your morning routine. Once you’re able to…

How accepting self-doubt is the only solution *One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled…

There are times in life where you have to make hard decisions. Your goals come into conflict with someone else & you find yourself…

Have we moved into a new stage of ‘millennial’ history after the Trump/Brexit results? Castigated for our apathy towards life, work…

Remarkable: ‘Worthy of attention; striking;’ Stumbling upon writing I started journaling out of a desire to clarify my thoughts; to get…

No-one believes in the vision, but they are too afraid to admit it. When I walk into my office, I get the feeling that everyone is in on one…

Discover that burning need you can’t ignore Why ‘need’, not ‘want’ is the key to success “Desire is the starting point of all achievement…

Early success came easily. A few months into my first start-up & we had already had an App Store feature under ‘Best New Apps’, 15k…

I was listening to a podcast yesterday where Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post & Thrive Global, discussed the influence the…

We complain about everything. You can’t find the right job. Your boss doesn’t respect you. Learning a new language is too hard. You don’t…

How fear prevents action It’s presumptuous to think that everyone knows what they want; that they are able to clearly envision living — or…

What is productivity? Why is it important? Flow 5 Actionable Steps to Achieve Flow Your company “I’m so busy right now, I’ve got -like- a…

I am finally going to use the word. It’s been 3 months in the making & a few days since it has crystallised in my mind. I feel like I need…