Corporate Culture and Product Decisions

This week, Steve Johnson and I were joined by regular panelists Jason Vincelette, Anita Wood, Jon Gatrell  Paul Hurwitz, Calvin Marshall, and Dharma Subramanian, and new panelist Seth McKnight for our largest Topic of the Week conversation.

We could anticipate the large panel as our Monday question got the most responses of any topic of the week, and the poll had the most responses as well. Seems like we picked a good topic in Corporate Culture.

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "How does corporate culture affect product decisions?" And see us explore many lenses to the question.

Listen to our conversation on the poll question "What is the most common way corporate culture impacts product decisions?" Where Lack of Alignment not only won the poll but a good case was made that it is the root cause of the others.

And for the first time, due to the size of the panel and the interest in the topic, we did not have time for our open-ended questions and jumped right to our Lightning Round question "What is your advice to a product manager who is dealing with corporate culture issues?" Where Seth hits a home run in his first at-bat with "be patient and build relationships" and Jason followed him with "Be the change that you want to see."

We ended the call with Jon Gatrell looking for a Margaret Mead Quote, which I think is "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Jon if this was not the one you were thinking of, let me know.