I got root canal this week, and it made me think about what an enormously empathetic person my dentist is. “Product managers can learn a lot from her,” I thought.

Here are 3 ways in which you can use empathy to build stronger teams, and stronger products. 

If you're a product manager searching for your North Star, try writing the press release you envision for your product once it's ready for launch.

Here’s how to do this simple exercise in 4 steps.

As a product manager, it's important that you're respected by your peers, and also by your engineering teams.

Here are 5 basic things engineers expect from their product managers.

I hear a lot of young and new product managers asking, “How do I find a mentor?”

Here are 5 tips on mentorship, and being a good mentee.

You've been managing your half-build product for over a month. Now you need to keep that momentum going.

Here are some tips for managing a half-built product, beyond Month 1.

Dealing with a huge list of varied customer feature requests? 

How do you prioritize? 

Try these 6 steps for prioritizing a giant list of customer asks.

You're past the first week; You now understand the goals and the timeline, and your team is working well together. Now you're ready to make some real progress.

Here are 5 steps for Taking Over a Half-Built Product, Weeks 2-4.

As product managers, we rarely have the luxury of being assigned a brand-new product or feature to manage. Most of us take over a product or feature that's 'in progress.' As product managers, we're often picking up where another PM left off.

Here are 5 steps for Week 1 of picking up a mid-build product.

During my own recent customer journey buying a Tesla product, I noted 6 things that Tesla did during the sales process that added up to incredible product storytelling. 

All product managers can learn from this experience.

When writing a product or feature brief... or a PRD... where to start?

Most people looking at a product or feature brief are trying to answer one of these 5 questions.

Make sure they're answered in your documentation.

The right tools can make good product managers look even better. 

Here are my top 3 tools that every product manager should know about.

Ask your boss if you can attend one of these events - today!

Get that early-in-the-year budget earmarked to attend these product management conferences.

A product manager I (virtually) know surveyed 30 product executives and senior product managers in the US. 

Here are 10 pieces of awesome product management career advice that I pulled out of her findings.

One of your responsibilities as a product manager is to build a cohesive team. Cohesive teams build awesome products. 

How does one build a cohesive team? Here are 5 tips you can start today. 

I have been wrestling with this question for a long time. 

Ultimately, I decided to go for it. 

Then, these 5 things happened that made me change my mind at a stunning speed.

As product managers, there are always a plethora of things we can work on to be better product managers, so what to focus on to move our careers forward in 2018?

Here are 5 simple things I'd recommend product managers do in the new year to move their careers forward.

Will an MBA help you to either break into product management, or further your career as a product manager?
I interview two product managers - one who does not have his MBA, and one who does have her MBA. Read their advice an opinions on getting an MBA to further your career in product.

Have to make a decision in a short amount of time? As a product manager, you better know what you want, or figure it out fast. 
Don't fret if your decision isn't ideal. It's better to make a bad decision today, than a good decision a year from now. 

As a product manager, you want to keep your design team happy, because they make your product look good. By making your product look good, designers make you look good, too. And we all like to look good, don't we?

What can you do to be the product manager that all the devs want to work with?

Here are the top 5 things you can do to be indispensable to your engineering teams.