Author: Jesse James Garrett
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Bridging the Gap: Creating True Partnership Between Product and Design
I had such a great time speaking and hanging out with the community at Y OSLO last week! It was fun to hear the reactions to my talk “Bridging the Gap: Creating True Partnership Between Product and Design”. I continue to be fascinated by the shared challenges and the common ground we find when we…
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Credibility in leadership: Leslie Witt on Finding Our Way
Why won’t executives take design leaders seriously? Why do they seem to consider the perspective of a newly-minted product leader more valuable than that of a veteran design leader? And what can design leaders do to change the equation? Some clues can be found in our recent conversation on Finding Our Way with Leslie Witt,…
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Leadership coach as consulting editor
Recently, I’ve been working with an increasing number of design leaders looking for help getting their ideas into a form that’s ready to be shared with the world. It’s a fun full-circle moment for me, since my earliest work in tech was as an editor. I worked with writers to create “web friendly” content that…
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Talking about my career journey on Reconsidering
This is one of the most personal interviews I’ve done. It’s rare that I get the chance to talk publicly about the personal motivations and values that have guided my work throughout my career, from agency to in-house to leadership coach. So I was excited when the team at Reconsidering invited me onto their show…
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The view from the product side: John Cutler on Finding Our Way
If you’re feeling pushed around as a design leader, there’s a very good chance that it’s your product partner that you feel pushed around by. Though it might feel that way, it’s more likely that you’re both being pushed around by the context you find yourselves in, according to product management consultant John Cutler in…
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So you’re reporting to a founder
Here is the thing about being a founder: if you are even remotely good at it, your default state is to worry about literally everything literally all the time. Therefore, the most valuable thing that a leader reporting to a founder can provide to a founder is peace of mind. So to understand the value…
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Building trust at scale: Anne Pascual on Finding Our Way
It is an old management truism that building trust is necessary for success. Without trust from our partners, team members, and leaders, we simply can’t accomplish anything, whether as individuals or as entire teams. For leaders, the challenge is twofold: building the trust that people invest in yourself as a leader while also building the…
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Product teams’ speed habit
If one thing is broadly true about humans (and indeed most animals), it’s that we tend to do what has worked for us in the past. This, of course, sets us up for the journey of failure and disappointment known as “growth”—just ask any toddler. As companies grow, they also tend to do what has…
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The second leader: Vuokko Aro on Finding Our Way
It’s tough to be the follow-up act. People talk a lot about being the first leader: zero to one, built from scratch, vision to realization. But the challenges of being the second leader for a team can be even bigger. Success as the second leader depends a lot on what you step into—and whether you’re…
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Do you work with people who get it?
As much as I love helping my clients dream into the new and go after ever more ambitious goals, the truth is that leaders often call on me because something’s broken down. Lately, that breakdown seems to be more acute than ever, and it’s hitting leaders hard: Losing sleep. Losing focus. Losing motivation. They’re facing…
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