Brad DunnA case to not align on strategyDoes low tenure make strategy & values alignment work pointless?·4 min read·Aug 24, 2023
Brad DunnCrushing it: The blindness of overconfident CEOs?Investigating the relationships between JTBD importance and satisfaction in SMB CEOs & founders in North America.·11 min read·Apr 3, 2023109109
Brad DunninXross FunctionalBi-Directional Product ManagementWhat if product managers did something else?·20 min read·Aug 28, 202218161816
Brad DunnHomo Decidus: The card game that reduces bias and logical fallacies so your team can make better…For a while now I’ve become increasingly interested in the field known as decision intelligence, a somewhat flexible term from engineering…12 min read·Jul 27, 2022110110
Brad DunnWhat if meetings cost money?The benefits of meeting scarcity and why you should create it·7 min read·Jul 7, 20223838
Brad DunninProduct CoalitionThe Great SilenceWhy have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers?·33 min read·Feb 26, 202222052205
Brad DunnWhat I say when people ask me for more moneyEvery now and then I’ll have a discussion with someone on the team who is looking for more money, a promotion, or just wants to talk about…9 min read·Jul 1, 202110011001
Brad DunninXross FunctionalWhat phases do product ideas go through?How do we know we’re building the right product?6 min read·Jun 19, 202112011201
Brad DunninXross FunctionalWhy We Don’t Interview Product Managers AnymoreFirstly, job interviews are mostly nonsense. There are huge volumes of research from academic circles, popular journals like Harvard…·14 min read·Apr 19, 20214.3K434.3K43
Brad DunnHow We Know For Sure When Something is Ready to Build?No matter what we do at Whispir, we want to make sure we’re building the right things — but truthfully you never quite know if something…7 min read·Mar 26, 20215252
Brad DunnHow Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at WhispirI wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to…8 min read·Mar 13, 202124412441
Brad DunninProduct CoalitionRAGE. A simple way for product managers to answer the question “Why does everything take so long?”Why does everything take so long to build? Have you heard this before as a product manager? Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to…·20 min read·Jan 11, 202141544154
Brad DunnHow I automated our interview feedback process in less than 15 minutesOkay - so I’ll level with you. One area I need to get much better with is preparing for interviews. On average I can have somewhere…6 min read·Oct 31, 20201414
Brad DunnA german princess showed me how to get my teams closer to their goalsEverything I know about OKRs in a 40 minute video with tips from European royalty2 min read·Sep 21, 20203434
Brad DunninWhispirThe world needed a distraction free messaging platform — so we started building oneFor those of you who have seen the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma; my words here will mean something. I work for Whispir…9 min read·Sep 14, 20204848
Brad DunnWorking in tech? How to thrive in economic collapse.Either the world is ending, or its not — or maybe there is a third option, a kind of middle ground, nobody knows at this point, and anyone…3 min read·Mar 25, 202011
Brad DunnShould customers lie to you?In a world obsessed with feedback, why do so few people give it?9 min read·Jan 23, 202022
Brad DunnA very simple way to encourage more feedback in your teamsIs giving feedback really useful?4 min read·Dec 14, 201911
Brad DunnWhat makes software engineers authentically productive?600 developers from 92 companies competed to write the best code. The results are weird.10 min read·Dec 12, 2019121121
Brad DunnA practical approach to non-violent communication (NVC)I talk a lot about radical candor here, which outlines four very different ways in which feedback is often delivered, but when it comes to…5 min read·Dec 11, 20197070
Brad DunnWhat if you didn’t pay sales people commissions?For as long as I can remember, the thinking around what motivates people was simple. The more you pay someone the better they will perform…7 min read·Dec 8, 20191313
Brad DunnA company 1,400 years and still goingCan the world’s oldest companies survive much longer?6 min read·Dec 7, 201911
Brad DunnHow to tell if you have a feedback problem?Most organisations today have a real fear of conflict. It permeates throughout all interactions and stops teams from being spectacular…4 min read·Dec 5, 20195353
Brad DunnThere is more to the observer effect than you thinkBetween 1924 and 1932, The Hawthorne Works Electrical Company, just outside Chicago, commissioned a study to see if workers would become…3 min read·Nov 27, 2019
Brad DunnTake the test: How much do people trust you as a leader?A simple assessment showing your trustworthiness4 min read·Nov 26, 201955
Brad DunnA team building exercise most teams can’t doCan you make a square from a piece of string?5 min read·Nov 25, 20191111
Brad DunnThe two kinds of high performers and how to keep them happyRockstars vs Superstars3 min read·Nov 24, 201922
Brad DunnThe five dysfunctions of a team and how to overcome themWhen it comes to creating a healthy organisation, leadership teams must work incredibly well together, and in nearly all cases, they don’t…4 min read·Nov 22, 201910921092
Brad DunnUnderstanding non-customersI’ve spoken about Blue Ocean markets before, but for the uninitiated, the term comes from the book Blue Ocean Strategy. The core story of…4 min read·Nov 21, 2019----
Brad DunnHow to turn values into behavioursThey say companies who are values driven perform better, but in nearly all cases, a quick walk around any organisation and it’s easy to…4 min read·Nov 20, 2019----
Brad DunnStretch OKRs send the wrong messageWhen you set OKRs with your team, the wildly held belief is to set stretch goals (stretch key results, really). Google is known for saying…5 min read·Nov 19, 2019--1--1
Brad DunninProduct CoalitionMoving to OKRs in 30 days: A step by step guide.I have been talking to a LOT of people over the last few months about OKRs — more than I thought I would actually. It is such a hot topic…44 min read·Nov 10, 2019--1--1
Brad DunnHow do you actually become a two Pizza team?Over the last ten years, growing software teams have moved from functional silos to small, autonomous cross-functional teams, but I am…8 min read·Sep 15, 2019----
Brad DunnWithout a phone for 30 daysFor a while now I’ve had unhealthy proclivities with my phone. Why does this thing demand so much of my time, and why do I allow it to…10 min read·Jul 15, 2019--1--1
Brad DunnBeing promoted isn’t always what you want, and I can explain why.I’ve been working as a product manager for a while now, and had a bunch of different roles with varying titles, including being the CEO of…7 min read·Jul 9, 2019----
Brad DunnThe Spotify PitchHow we used a comic-book and a big idea to meet with one of the world’s most interesting companies.19 min read·Jun 29, 2019----
Brad DunnThe way I think about letting goAbout a year ago I was at a New Ideas conference (I think) where a friend of mine, David Vitale, was giving a talk about the whiskey they…3 min read·Jun 25, 2019----
Brad DunninProduct CoalitionWhich features lead to retention, and can I prove it?How to uncover which events lead to greater retention using Mixpanel signals.9 min read·May 20, 2019----
