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
Pam Fox Rollin: Be a leader who helps people come alive
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#21: April Dunford - Find your power in the market through positioning
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#20: Nilofer Merchant — Unleashing Onlyness to benefit from the ideas and potential in every person
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#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic problems with entrepreneurship
People, books, companies, resources etc mentioned in episode
BiasSync Dan Gould Michele Ruiz Robin Richards
Key concepts Unconscious Bias Humanism Diversity, Inclusion, Equity Microaggressions Cognitiv…
#18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking
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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
Josh Seiden - Twitter & websiteJosh's book: Outcomes Over OutputsSense & Respond…
#17 Dr Matthew Cook: Identity shifts, beating trauma triggers, and continually recreating who you are
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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
Dr Matthew Cook (@BioResetMedical)BioReset Medical websiteBioReset podc…
#16 Holly Hester-Reilly: Building a customer-centric team and product culture
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Holly's (@h2rproductsci) company — H2R Product ScienceHolly's podcast — Pr…
#15 Sam Fankuchen: Leadership and responding to the needs of the world in a time of crisis
#13 Muriel Clauson: Identity, engagement, and being ready for the future of work
The first thing you need to know about Muriel Clauson is that she's SUPER passionate about people and sees her mission in life as unlocking human potential to help everyone live radically fulfilling …
#12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 2)
Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you …
#11 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 1)
Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you …
#10 Susan Basterfield: decentralized team structures and participatory decision-making
Show notes
- How Susan went bungee jumping... and met her husband [0:03:42]
- What is Enspiral? [0:08:39]
- What are the different types of roles and engagement within the Enspiral network? [0:10:45]
- "What we …
#9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
Show notes
- "You don't belong to you, you belong to the universe.", Buckminster Fuller [0:03:00]
- "You might not be in the best position to know why you're special. It's not up to you to decide if you're…
#8 Paula Daniels: Living on the edge of your own invention
Show notes
- Paula's favorite movie that informs her work [0:02:41]
- Paula's mentor: Dorothy Green [0:05:20]
- How Paula originally got involved in environmental work [0:06:56]
- What did Paula learn from Dorot…
#7 Becky Baybrook: culture, candor, and how Millenials are changing management
Books, companies, etc mentioned
Crucial Conversations - Becky especially recommends chapter 5, "On Safety" to broach challenging topics
#6 Barry Brown: Shaping the shapers
Show notes
Barry's focus [0:02:50]
Putting the body into submission to the mind [0:05:17]
A leader's first transformational relationship [0:06:15]
"So they're reading all these books on leadership, but t…
#5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization
My guest in this conversation is Rich Mironov (@RichMironov).
Rich is known as the "product mensch" in Silicon Valley, and for good reason. Educated at Yale and Stanford, Rich is a 30-year veteran of …
#4 Marshall Mosher: tough product calls & acclimating to fear
People, books, companies, resources, links mentioned in the episode
Marshall's company: VestigoConnect with Marshall: LinkedIn & InstagramInside the Adventure podcast interview with paraglider Gavin M…
#3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams
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Christina's books:
- The Team That Managed Itself (consider leaving a review here if you enjoy it)
- Radical Focus
- Pencil Me In
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