Make Things That Matter
What if our products and companies gave more life to everything they touched? Making this a reality is our quest, through impactful product leadership, strategy, and culture.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
#42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work
ARM is a simple mental model to help you intentionally craft more fulfilling work.
Update: I’ve now released a follow-up episode answering four questions about the model that have come up since this e…
#40 Eric Steege: Treat your culture like a product
Eric Steege is an energetic product leader intent on spreading great product cultures and practices. This conversation explores how to use product thinking to build your culture.
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#39 Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle in organizations
Melissa Perri is on a mission to grow great product leaders. This conversation will help you to become more strategic and multiply your impact.
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#38 Sarah Avenir: What is people-first growth?
Sarah Avenir is a full-hearted leader who models vulnerable strength in her experiments to create sustainable businesses that are good for people.
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#37 C Todd Lombardo: Ask better questions to unlock clarity
C Todd Lombardo brings a blend of humanity, rigor, and innate curiosity to the questions that shape what we do. Learn to ask better questions and unlock clarity in your work.
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#36 Michael O'Bryan: The mechanics of our humanity
Michael O'Bryan is on a quest to make truly humane systems by transforming how organizations understand and support human development, interaction, and performance.
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#35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves
Dianne Frommelt is the Chief Product Officer for 15Five, a company I am a longtime fan of. They're on a mission to create high performing, highly engaged teams, and to create a product that helps eve…
#34 Will Toms: The power of creative community
Will Toms is the cofounder of REC Philly, an incubator, community, and resource center aimed at helping independent creatives make a sustainable living. In short, he's out to challenge the narrative …
#33: 8 Lessons Learned in 2020
For the last episode of 2020, Andrew reflects on 8 big lessons learned from guests this year, and shares a few reflection questions to ask yourself. Wishing you all a peaceful end to this turbulent y…
#32 Alex Hillman: How to play the long game of business
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Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams
Marty Cagan is basically the godfather of modern tech product management.
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## Links & resources mentioned
Marty Cagan - @cagan
New book: EMPOWERED - coauthored with Chris Jones
Previous book: INSPIRE…
#30 Natalie Nagele: Building a people-first company at Wildbit
This is the first episode released under the new name of the show, Make Things That Matter! If you're curious, listen to ep29 for more on the rebranding.
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#28 Rob Walling: Build a great business and let that be enough
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Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader
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David Dylan Thomas: Understanding cognitive bias
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#25 Karl Kuhnert: How to find strength in vulnerability and live your values as a leader
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#24 Laura Garnett: Find your zone of genius and never fear a job search again
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#23 Soushiant Zanganehpour: Solving systemic problems with social entrepreneurship
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