Many organizations unintentionally turn Product Managers into Project Managers. This article explores why role confusion happens, how it erodes strategy and talent, and what treating PMs as product leaders actually requires.

Customer feedback is everywhere, yet decisions rarely change. This piece explores how discovery turns into theater, insight gets distorted, and what it actually takes for feedback to shape strategy.

Product strategy often looks aligned on paper but weakens before execution begins. This article explains why strategy fails early and how to turn it into an operating system, not a document.

Many PM careers stall after Senior PM, not from lack of growth but shifting expectations. This breaks down why that happens and what real progression beyond Senior PM looks like.

The books that shaped how I make decisions, lead teams, and think about strategy. Recommended through real product challenges leaders face, not abstract frameworks.

Roadmaps don’t fail because teams can’t plan. They fail when strategy is implicit, discovery is undervalued, and customer reality never makes it into the plan.

Companies don’t fail by hiring too early, but by hiring the wrong profile for their stage. This explains common mistakes and what first PMs are realistically expected to fix.

Teams don’t stall because they never found product–market fit. They stall because they assumed it held and stopped questioning whether customers were still getting value.