Podcast: High Impact Product Teams

I recently joined Jonathan Ozeran from Tempus on the Products That Count / Product Talk podcast to discuss building high-impact product teams through disciplined leadership and customer focus. The conversation drew from my experience scaling teams at eBay, Groupon, Fetch and DoorDash, as well as my current work consulting product teams and coaching product leaders.

Some of the key topics we explored:

• How disciplined leadership is essential when everything feels urgent

• The role customer focus plays when teams are pulled in multiple directions

• Layering on structure and discipline without killing existing momentum

• What separates high-impact teams from those just working hard

• Patterns when teams hit inflection points and need to change their approach

• Similarities between a roadmap and an investment portfolio

• Basketball, including a bunch of metaphors and a John Wooden reference

These are challenges I see teams facing regardless of company stage or industry, and the conversation covered practical approaches for each.

The full episode is available on Products That Count, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Building high-impact product teams is central to my coaching and advisory work. Happy to discuss how these principles might apply to your situation.