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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, decision making, and culture. blog.makethingsthatmatter.com

Itamar Gilad: the GIST of product discovery

64 hours 31 mins; July 30, 2024

Steve Portigal: Improving your user research process

74 hours 19 mins; June 28, 2024

Christian Idiodi: Telling the story of transformation

65 hours 45 mins; May 31, 2024

Martina Hodges-Schell: Understanding your operating model

55 mins; April 15, 2024

Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model

61 hours 45 mins; March 13, 2024

Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products

58 mins; January 23, 2024

(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing

20 mins; December 12, 2023

Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product

73 hours 41 mins; December 12, 2023

Nacho Bassino: How to build your first product strategy

62 hours 46 mins; November 01, 2023

Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams

56 mins; October 10, 2023

Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change

43 mins; September 27, 2023

MJ Jastrebski: How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a CPO

75 hours 10 mins; August 10, 2023

Thank you, and a brief update

2 mins; July 19, 2023

Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey

60 hours 23 mins; May 29, 2023

Adam Thomas: Operationalizing your product strategy

54 mins; May 17, 2023

Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

50 mins; April 11, 2023

Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition

55 mins; March 27, 2023

Double click on the love

10 mins; March 07, 2023

Petra Wille: Building a community of practice

50 mins; February 28, 2023

Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory

61 hours 36 mins; February 07, 2023

Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad

63 hours 47 mins; January 25, 2023

5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches

15 mins; January 10, 2023

DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

65 hours 59 mins; December 27, 2022

#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment

58 mins; November 01, 2022

#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life

90 hours 7 mins; June 28, 2022

#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career

81 hours 13 mins; May 31, 2022

#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift

65 hours 31 mins; April 07, 2022

How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?

18 mins; March 01, 2022

#54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization

79 hours 14 mins; January 11, 2022

#53: Turning over a tough year

14 mins; December 26, 2021

#52 How to get more creative flow in your work day

31 mins; December 09, 2021

#51 Two years in: Making things that matter

16 mins; November 09, 2021

#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses

81 hours 3 mins; September 07, 2021

#49: Thoughts on entrepreneurship and philanthropy

49 mins; August 10, 2021

#48 ARM redux: 4 nuances of fulfilling work

13 mins; July 27, 2021

#47 Matt Kressy: Love as creative fuel

70 hours 35 mins; July 13, 2021

#46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary

18 mins; June 29, 2021

#45: The Timeless Way of Leading

9 mins; June 15, 2021

#44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets

76 hours 47 mins; June 01, 2021

#43 Courtney Bigony: Life above neutral with Positive Product Design

59 mins; May 18, 2021

#42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work

11 mins; May 04, 2021

#41 Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation

80 hours 0 mins; April 20, 2021

#40 Eric Steege: Treat your culture like a product

59 mins; April 06, 2021

#39 Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle in organizations

54 mins; March 23, 2021

#38 Sarah Avenir: What is people-first growth?

60 hours 28 mins; March 09, 2021

#37 C Todd Lombardo: Ask better questions to unlock clarity

63 hours 39 mins; February 23, 2021

#36 Michael O'Bryan: The mechanics of our humanity

62 hours 57 mins; February 09, 2021

#35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves

54 mins; January 26, 2021

#34 Will Toms: The power of creative community

50 mins; January 12, 2021

#33: 8 Lessons Learned in 2020

60 hours 48 mins; December 29, 2020

#32 Alex Hillman: How to play the long game of business

59 mins; December 15, 2020

Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams

59 mins; December 01, 2020

#30 Natalie Nagele: Building a people-first company at Wildbit

59 mins; November 17, 2020

#29: One year of the podcast! And a new show name.

6 mins; November 03, 2020

#28 Rob Walling: Build a great business and let that be enough

58 mins; October 20, 2020

Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader

58 mins; October 06, 2020

David Dylan Thomas: Understanding cognitive bias

59 mins; September 22, 2020

#25 Karl Kuhnert: How to find strength in vulnerability and live your values as a leader

51 mins; September 08, 2020

#24 Laura Garnett: Find your zone of genius and never fear a job search again

65 hours 31 mins; August 25, 2020

#23 Soushiant Zanganehpour: Solving systemic problems with social entrepreneurship

59 mins; August 11, 2020

Pam Fox Rollin: Be a leader who helps people come alive

65 hours 36 mins; July 28, 2020

#21: April Dunford - Find your power in the market through positioning

81 hours 4 mins; July 14, 2020

#20: Nilofer Merchant — Unleashing Onlyness to benefit from the ideas and potential in every person

67 hours 13 mins; June 30, 2020

#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic problems with entrepreneurship

73 hours 37 mins; June 16, 2020

#18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking

80 hours 35 mins; June 02, 2020

#17 Dr Matthew Cook: Identity shifts, beating trauma triggers, and continually recreating who you are

91 hours 21 mins; May 19, 2020

#16 Holly Hester-Reilly: Building a customer-centric team and product culture

82 hours 15 mins; May 05, 2020

#15 Sam Fankuchen: Leadership and responding to the needs of the world in a time of crisis

69 hours 20 mins; April 21, 2020

#14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life

107 hours 23 mins; April 07, 2020

#13 Muriel Clauson: Identity, engagement, and being ready for the future of work

105 hours 8 mins; March 24, 2020

#12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 2)

64 hours 43 mins; March 10, 2020

#11 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 1)

59 mins; February 25, 2020

#10 Susan Basterfield: decentralized team structures and participatory decision-making

86 hours 4 mins; February 11, 2020

#9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe

86 hours 50 mins; January 28, 2020

#8 Paula Daniels: Living on the edge of your own invention

77 hours 59 mins; January 14, 2020

#7 Becky Baybrook: culture, candor, and how Millenials are changing management

115 hours 12 mins; December 31, 2019

#6 Barry Brown: Shaping the shapers

80 hours 38 mins; December 17, 2019

#5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization

73 hours 53 mins; December 03, 2019

#4 Marshall Mosher: tough product calls & acclimating to fear

118 hours 10 mins; November 19, 2019

#3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams

106 hours 20 mins; November 05, 2019

#2 Barry O'Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change

94 hours 24 mins; November 05, 2019

#1 May Lindstrom: The power of having a North Star

110 hours 25 mins; November 05, 2019

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