Fortune’s Path: the Blog

Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.

Jake Levirne On How to Use AI and The Internet the Right Way, How It Affects Our Psyche and How to Use New Tools Ethically.

With AI changing the landscape of software development, expert computer scientist and 20 year veteran product manager Jake Levirne offers a look into the future of software development and how it will change on the product and human level. Jake’s special blend of expertise and virtue led to his new venture Duckie.Foo, a platform teaching up-and-coming software developers the trade without internet troll scorn. Jake also teaches us some basic AI terminology to improve software literacy, part of his larger, honorable mission to prevent the bounty of AI innovation from remaining in the hands of the wealthy.

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How to Keep Product Managers from Going Extinct: Thoughts on Marty Cagan’s Transformed

In his recent book “Transformed” Marty Cagan believes that product management can be at the center of business transformation, which here means the process of becoming a better, more innovative, and therefore more successful company. I agree, but not for the reasons Marty outlines. Successful business transformations are when principle drives behavior, not processes or checklists. While his thesis is spot-on, there are more practical, workable ways to bring about business transformation.

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Leadership Styles in Product Management

Over years of working with a range of tech leaders from all walks of life, Fortune’s Path has identified four leadership styles: the Finder, the Maker, the Delegator and the Decider. Most people use a combination of styles, but one or two tend to dominate. We take a closer look at each one.

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Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie

Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.

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