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.
Chris Boyd: How Incentives Can Help Address Construction Industry Labor Shortages
Tom talks with Chris Boyd, formerly of Built Technologies and now at Trunk Tools, a construction fintech startup. Chris wants to help solve the skilled labor shortage by aligning incentives from top to bottom.
Your First 30 Days in Product Management
Whether you’re a product lead at a fast-growing startup or a getting started with an established enterprise, the first 90 days are go-time to make an impact and secure your reputation as a can-do leader. Here’s your roadmap for the first 30 days.
Ray Guzman: AI and the Paper Ceiling
Tom talks with Ray Guzman, Army veteran, advisor, board member, strategist, and CEO of Switchpoint Ventures, an innovation enabler making AI investments in organizations that seek transformation through machine learning.
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Product Management
As product managers progress in their careers, they often struggle with imposter syndrome. How to overcome this limitation, and build towards success, requires self-awareness, patience, and equal doses of generosity and empathy. Here’s how.
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.
When to Broaden Product Offerings at Early Stage Companies
A quick guide to the five instances when leaders of an early stage company should expand their product offerings.
Luther Cale— Working to make healthcare safer, remote from Ecuador
What's it like raising a daughter in Ecuador? What's a good way to work remotely from another country? How do you build a new product in healthcare? These are some of the questions we ask Luther Cale, Vice President of Clinical Programs at Healthstream.
Chris Bradle — The courage to be yourself
Chris Bradle, Vice President of Product for Aiwyn, a start-up in Charlotte NC that helps accounting firms automate their particles and become more profitable, talks with Tom about long distance running, being yourself in business, and how differentiation comes from authenticity.
Five Questions to Ask to Create a Product People Will Love: A Product Framework
What five questions should you ask yourself before creating a new product? And how can you answer these questions with a high degree of authority? Watch this video to learn more about the Fortune's Path Product Framework.
Amin Haidar: Managing Product Managers
Amin Haidar, Director of Product Management at Asurion, talks about how he mentors and manages project managers and how Asurion decides what software development to prioritize and how to hold teams accountable. This one may be our best yet for practical advice about how to be and lead great product managers.