Podcast: “Champagne Strategy,” Innovation, and Product Growth
John James produces the “Champagne Strategy” podcast, which which deconstructs world-class business strategy with a focus on growth and tech. We virtually shared a class of 19 Crimes Chardonnay during a rollicking chat about products, strategy, and tech history.
We touched on:
Elon Musk oversimplifying MBAs (Rich has one, but tries not to act like an MBA)
A bottle of bleach is a bottle of bleach, ketchup bottle design: thinking about innovation in Consumer Packaged Goods
We’ve been doing product-led growth since (at least) the 1980’s. New insights or new label?
Fallacies about the originality of tech ideas and forgetting previous product attempts
“I see a lot of vision that’s labeled as strategy“
Rich is a huge fan of agile, but agile doesn’t answer product strategy questions. We’re selling agile to the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
Why we shouldn’t outsource strategy
Rich would hate to work at a company that was completely staffed by product managers
When your sales team take you out for a drink it’s not (only) because they like you, it’s because they want something
Small companies can get away with things that large companies can’t. And that’s why startups sometimes succeed where larger companies fail
About Daniel Elizalde’s upcoming book: “I think he’s one of the smartest guys on the planet”
Henry Ford fallacy: no, he never said that (and it’s mostly not true)