The Inescapable Deadline: 5 Reasons Managers of Product Teams Keep Setting Them

Explore why managers set deadlines for product teams and their impact on motivation. Learn better, deadline-free success strategies.

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8 Signals of Low Product Team Purpose | No Engagement Surveys Needed

Explore the 8 signals of the conditions that sabotage product team purpose. Learn to foster autonomy and mastery for stronger, purpose-driven teams.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Cultivate a Learning Culture and Build Insanely Curious Product Teams

Discover 3 ways to foster a learning culture in product teams, turning curiosity into a driving force for innovation.

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Your new product value flow assistant—my dependency breaking GPT

Transform business agility with Coach Lankford GPT – expert dependency breaking strategies for seamless value delivery and team empowerment.

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Agility coaching redefined—meet my continuous improvement GPT

Whether you’re leading a team or steering an organization, this GPT offers core insights to support continuous improvement and business agility.

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Why is your product team so lazy?

“My team consistently rolls work over from Sprint-to-Sprint. Why is it not motivated to finish what it starts? It doesn’t deliver what it commits to deliver. I must have the wrong people.” Do you ever hear this? Do you say it about your teams? We blame the team, but we should not.

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Remove Date-driven Behavior to Achieve Agility—Commit to Value, Not Dates

Delivering something on time does not mean it is valuable.

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