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Growth is the Quickest Path to Consistent Innovation... Change is difficult, and presents the opportunity to learn and grow. Growth is born from our ability to embrace & understand the benefits of knowledge and experience through change. Innovation is…lnkd.in/efZMPpk4

Design & Innovation lives at the intersection of growth & opportunity. I am happy to announce that I will be speaking and joining a great group of friends, colleagues and innovators next month (April 10 - 12) for an Executive Exchange. My Sessions includ…lnkd.in/gWnscAHr

Don’t confuse understanding with hearing or listening... Many organizations claim they have “heard from their customers” or “listened to their customers”, but that alone does not build understanding and empathy to create meaningful products, platforms, s…lnkd.in/e3XaQ93b

Good Enough is the Enemy of Great settling for good enough, making too many concessions and taking too many shortcuts -- is the quickest path to mediocrity & apathy. - hold true to your values - drive purpose and intent in your actions - do the work nec…lnkd.in/e3hxavrj

I'm excited to join an incredible lineup of speakers on May 10th for adplist.org #ProductDay. I will be speaking to a global audience about what it takes to Build a Most Lovable Product (MLP) Culture. It’s going to be a jam packed 24hrs with…lnkd.in/efceDG8C

Design is about making great, progressive, and meaningful products for people. Companies can’t afford to make Design an afterthought if they wish to succeed. 5 Principles for Great Design & Most Lovable Products: 01 | Make it Epic: Great products can…lnkd.in/eTSj6sBc

Great products & design should endeavor to go beyond the minimum viable & deliver more than what’s expected for its customers & users. Design's greatest role is to inspire teams and organizations to drive ambitious and radical thinking to create most lov…lnkd.in/eF3ygeKu

Designing, Developing & Delivering Products at the Speed of Change Honored to share that I will be speaking at the Front UX & Product Management Conference 26-28 April on the Silicon Slopes. Join myself and other amazing speakers who will take you throu…lnkd.in/eFDnEZmV

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without Strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Sun Tzu Whether you are leading a new product, new team, new process, company or your own personal growth. One of the most important, and o…lnkd.in/eSmVY2gC

Solving for Progressive Organizational, Product & Customer Complexities through Design Last week, I published a post about the challenges with implementations of Agile methodologies & the fractures occurring due to increased complexities with growing tec…lnkd.in/eQWKpWhu

Agile is Broken & Needs to Change Lately, there are a lot of discussions around the future of Design Thinking, and how it needs to evolve to meet today's complex challenges. So why isn’t anyone talking about the fragility of Agile? Agile is a fractured…lnkd.in/e9ZbEr6i

Time is Your Most Valuable Asset to Grow & Succeed Protecting your time is one of the most underrated skills and most valuable assets for any leader to possess and flex. It is the single most important ingredient for working on things that create value…lnkd.in/evhYB9fM

Measuring What Matters: The UXtraordinary Experience - Part 2 With so much exciting news swirling around AI and the battle brewing between ChatGPT and BARD - it is easy to lose sight of what matters most for companies who need to…lnkd.in/eeH5B9Tv bit.ly/3DRlxET

So What do the Big Tech Layoffs Mean for Designers? Call me an optimist, but the next evolution of Design provides us with the unique opportunity to transform, change and grow the future of business into purposeful products and ex…lnkd.in/errFDt-q bit.ly/3YcYZpH

Your current situation does not define your value, your story or your future successes. Over 345,000 of dedicated tech, design, and product professionals have been laid off since the beginning of 2022 with the majority of that number in the past six mont…lnkd.in/eYWbXcbG

Part One of The UXtraordinary Experience - Developing OKRs If you been thinking about how to develop OKRs for your UX & CX teams that are customer centered, measure the impact of security friction, and create customer value with p…lnkd.in/ehMxMhuk bit.ly/3iMSCdX

After losing both of my parents, my wife’s mother & several family members during the height of the pandemic + keeping the kids remote learning, supporting my teams & their families wellbeing & working nonstop across 10 timezones to launch a global stream…lnkd.in/ejn74M9Z

DAAAMN! What’s in store for Media Companies? There is little argument that it has been a tough year for media companies, and word on the street is it’s only going to get tougher as the focus becomes more about profitability while balancing subscriber gro…lnkd.in/dTDMjWPC

It’s Time to Start Designing Products for Customer Ecosystems Instead of Singular Users and Platforms Over the past decade we have witnessed an explosion of new technologies, connectivity, collaboration, automation, AI, ML, content, and entertainment. On…lnkd.in/eTFEWppR

WHO, HOW, WHY & WTF?  I was excited to post about all of the mind-blowing advancements in AI including ChatGPT, Midjourney, and how the next generation of Design Leaders are needed, now more than ever, to create and navigate the new innovative experience…lnkd.in/eTtNvsCP