Petra Wille
Independent product leadership coach and author of Strong Product People (2021); began as a software developer and worked in product at the German network Xing.
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Their wordsBut I don't think we have to or should accept any of these versions of the future where AI might replace human judgment in some areas, where AI might be raising our kids through voice interfaces—but not in a good way—as an inevitable future. There is a real difference between taking a risk seriously (I’m as concerned as you might be!) and treating the current narratives as a future that is already written.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsYouth work is always political. Education work is always political. And here’s why I’m writing about this here on my product leadership blog: Leadership work is always political, too.
↗The Future Is Not Yet Invented: The Product Leader’s Influence on the World We All Will Live inpetra-wille.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIf you believe that AI will soon generate enough efficiency gains to make large numbers of employees redundant, and then act on that belief ahead of any evidence (as certain well-known companies repeatedly do), you mostly accomplish one thing: You make current shareholders richer.
↗The Future Is Not Yet Invented: The Product Leader’s Influence on the World We All Will Live inpetra-wille.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsIf you make bad decisions under stress as a PM, that already has some ripple effects. But in a leadership role, the ripple effect of a bad decision can quickly become a company mini-tsunami. So the old playbook just doesn't scale.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsEveryone talks about feeding AI systems more data. But what I see in teams that actually succeed with AI isn't just clever data work. They're obsessed with something much more fundamental: context—the invisible glue that makes their agents useful.
↗Why Context, Not Just Data, Will Define AI-Ready Product Teamspetra-wille.com
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Their wordsThe question that often comes up on this topic is: Can a company run both a product and a project operating model at the same time? The short answer is yes.
↗Why It’s Time to Forget the Project vs. Product Operating Model Debatepetra-wille.com