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Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey.
Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventional leaders take control of the story to drive impact for themselves and within their teams. We go deep on:
* how to handle managing our own stories in healthy conflict
* creating psychological safety
* what it looks like to “give yourself an A” so you feel freed up to invent new possibilities
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Links & resources
* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email
* Donna Lichaw: website, LinkedIn, Twitter
* Donna’s new book: The Leader’s Journey
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Related episodes:
* Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
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People & orgs:
* Neuroleadership Institute
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Books:
* The Art of Possibility
* Rethinking Positive Thinking
* The Upside Of Your Dark Side
* Nonviolent Communication
* Radical Candor
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Other resources:
* Donna’s toolkit
* The SCARF model (psych safety)
* 3F model


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Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires.
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Links & resources mentioned:
* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email
* Adam Thomas: website, LinkedIn, Twitter
* Adam’s Maven workshop: Survival Metrics
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Related episodes:
* Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle
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Books and media:
* Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
* The Crux
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Other resources:
* Warhammer 40K
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Timestamps:
[00:01:48] War gaming shaped product strategy
[00:03:22] Warhammer 40K
[00:07:11] Michael Jordan's Winning Shot
[00:11:22] The whole person equation
[00:14:15] Emotions in the workplace
[00:17:54] Survival metrics
[00:23:08] Implementing survival metrics
[00:27:26] Trust issues in product development
[00:30:05] Internal value exchange
[00:34:33] Being "Product Led" is Misleading
[00:36:26] Using survival metrics consistently
[00:39:23] Focusing on important outcomes
[00:45:12] Complying with regulations in finance
[00:50:13] Questions to ask yourself


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Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week.
This is a candid conversation about leadership and how our egos, sense of identity, and personal practices shape our company cultures. In particular, I think you’ll find practical benefit from our discussion about decoupling the concepts of morality and integrity to have healthier team dynamics.
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* Mike Saloio - Twitter, LinkedIn
* Huddle
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Related episodes:
* Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation
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People & orgs:
* Steph Golik (cofounder)
* TechStars
* EXPA
* Rick Rubin
* Alfred Adler
* Ray Dalio
* Russell Simmons (+ meditation book)
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Books and media:
* The Courage To Be Disliked
* Article - Polarities
* Polarity Management (book)
* Success Through Stillness
* Rick Rubin book
* Huddle launch article
* The Playbook
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Other resources:
* Ikigai
* “You must become somebody before you become nobody”
* Ubuntu
* Transcendental Meditation
* Four minute mile effect - Bannister effect


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The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

Links & resources mentioned
* Book: The SaaS Playbook
* Back the Kickstarter
* Startups for the Rest of Us podcast & MicroConf YouTube
* TinySeed
* MicroConf
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Related episodes:
* Rob Walling (ep28): Build a great business and let that be enough
* DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks
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People & orgs:
* TinySeed
* MicroConf
* Dr Shelly Walling
* Justin Jackson - choosing a market
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Books:
* The SaaS Playbook
* The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together
* Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
* The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats
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Other resources:
* MicroConf
* IndieHackers
* The 5PM idea validation framework
* Survivorship bias
* Stair step method of bootstrapping



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What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.
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Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into why and how a community of practice can level up your team and save training budget.
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Links & resources mentioned:
Petra Wille:
• Website
• Twitter @loomista
• LinkedIn
• Book: Strong Product People
• Conference: Product at Heart
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Related episodes:
• Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
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People & orgs:
• Robert Kegan
• Tolingo (translation company)
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Books:
• Strong Product People
• An Everyone Culture
• The Culture Map
• Selling the Dream
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Other resources:
• Product Communities of Practice: Everything You Need to Know
• Dan Pink - Autonomy, mastery, purpose
• The (product) cultural iceberg


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