What A Pastry Store Can Teach Product Managers 
What could a pastry shop have to teach an important product manager like you? Well, in early 2008 Gottenbusch started to see his customers beginning to buy smaller items in an effort to conserve money and at the same time his cost of materials was st...
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CIO Lessons From A Mouse
Robert Iger is the CEO of the Walt Disney Company. You know, the guys with the mouse. When you are in charge of a company that is that big, and that diverse, you need to have a special set of skills to keep everything together. Iger has a lot to teac...
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Your Presentation Voice: Is That Really Me?
We’ve all had that moment of disbelief - you know the one, when someone recorded you saying something and then played it back to you. You listened to the voice coming out of the speaker and you did what we all do - you winced and said “No way that’s ...
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6 Management Suggestions To Help IT Leaders In Tough Times
In these tough times you need to overcome your base instincts and do what good managers should do - lead. As a reminder of just what that really means in these tough times, here are six things that you should be doing right now...
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Practical IT Clouds: What To Do AFTER The Hype
Talk about your latest buzz word overkill! Just when the “Web 2.0″ madness had just about hit its peak, along came “Cloud Computing” and took its crown. It’s looking like cloud computing is here to stay, so what’s an IT department to do once they get...
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Just For You: The Accidental Product Manager Newsletter
It is with a great deal of pride that I am finally able to announce that free subscriptions to The Accidental Product Manager Newsletter are now available! It’s pretty clear that most of us have sorta fallen into this career and we’re all looking for...
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The Difference Between Sports And Sales Negotiation: Winning
What does it mean to “win” a sales negotiation? This sure looks like a simple question doesn’t it? I think that in our minds, we all know what we think winning looks like - after all, we see it in sports all the time. However, things are just a bit d...
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(Almost) Free Training For Presenters In LA: PresentationCampLA
I was quietly minding my own business the other day when Lisa Braithwaite from the blog Speak Schmeak reached out to me via email and asked me if I’d be willing to help her to get the word out about some upcoming (almost) free public speaking trainin...
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Free Training For Product Managers In NYC: ProductCamp NYC
I was quietly minding my own business the other day when Beth Robinson reached out to me via email and asked me if I’d be willing to help her to get the word out about some upcoming free Product Management training that’s going to be held up in New Y...
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Women In IT: What’s The Current Score?
How many women work in your IT department? Is your CIO a woman? The answer to the first question is probably “not that many“, and the answer to the second is all too often “no“. We’ve been aware that this is an issue for awhile, how are we doing on a...
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