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Common Product Management Screw-ups That Strike Even the Experienced

1. Acting like a Requirements Monkey. 2. Punting on strategy. 3. Not focusing on a particular target market. 4. Not meeting with enough customers often enough. 5. Not meeting with prospects and non-customers (aka potentials) often enough. 6. Not truly

Product Management Haiku, Redux

In our coupious spare time, Product Management bloggers just LOVE writing haikus. Check it: here (Pivotal PM), and here (my previous post), and here (Product Management Meets Pop Culture), and here (Tyner Blain), and here (On Product Management). The fun

Quora: What are some must-read books for product managers?

My answer, originally published on Quora. My Answer The Must-Read Books for Product Managers For product managers working on business-to-business high tech products and early technologies, the following are absolute must-reads: * Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to

Quora: Do parents love biological children more than adopted children?

Quora: How should paternity leave be arranged for a gay man with an adopted child?

Orignally posted to Quora [http://www.quora.com/How-should-paternity-leave-be-arranged-for-a-gay-man-with-an-adopted-child] . Q: How should paternity leave be arranged for a gay man with an adopted child? Should he get paternity leave, which is usually shorter, or maternity leave? If he gets maternity

Quora: Options for adopting from abroad as a single woman

I answered the following question on international adoption on Quora [https://www.quora.com/Im-a-single-female-in-my-40s-and-would-like-to-adopt-a-child-internationally-Which-countries-should-I-be-considering] : Q: I'm a single female in my 40s, and would like to adopt a child internationally. Which countries should I be considering? I&

Quora: Why is having biological children usually a couple's first choice, rather than adopting a newborn?

My answer to a question about adoption on Quora: Q: Why is having biological children usually a couple's first choice, rather than adopting a newborn? My Answer: Because the adoption process is: * Potentially very long & uncertain. You

Quora: On nannies, stay-at-home parents & feminism

My comments on an answer to a Quora question. Original Question: Motherhood: Are stay at home moms/dads who have a full-time nanny lazy? One person who answered this question basically said YES for the following reasons. * "This trend

Quora: If you are an adoptive parent, do you celebrate your child's 'gotcha day'?

Quora: How do gay male parents substitute for breast-feeding for their babies?

My answer, originally published on Quora. My Answer They do it the way ANY adoptive parent -- male or female, gay or straight -- does it: usually bottle-feeding with formula. Entire generations of kids grew up healthy on just formula,

Quora: Why do so few African-American children get adopted?

My answer, originally published on Quora [http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-few-African-American-children-get-adopted/answer/Sue-Raisty] . Q: Why do so few African-American children get adopted? My sister has been looking to adopt for a while now so we've been talking about

Quora: Do people in other countries adopt American children?

My answer, originally posted on Quora [http://www.quora.com/Do-people-in-other-countries-adopt-American-children/answer/Sue-Raisty] . My Answer Yes, but there is some debate about how many are adopted each year. It is probably in the 100s, and the leading foreign adopter of

Quora: Why is it so difficult (time, money, etc.) to adopt a child?

Quora: How does it feel to adopt a child of a different race from you?

Quora: What illnesses may disqualify someone from adopting a child internationally?

My answer, originally published on Quora. Q: What illnesses may disqualify someone from adopting a child internationally? If one of parents has a history of cancer and doctors said < 1% of its coming back, may the family apply to

Quora: Can an adult be legally adopted?

My answer, originally posted to Quora [http://www.quora.com/Can-an-adult-be-legally-adopted/answer/Sue-Raisty] My Answer I don't know about other countries, but yes, an adult can be legally adopted in many states in the USA, including California. The

Quora: Why do parents adopt children from foreign countries rather than from their own country?

Quora: Should you tell your adopted child that he/she is adopted?

My answer to this Quora question was originally published on 10/16/2013. My Answer: Yes, you should tell your child. Because he or she WILL definitely one day find out. Read the other answers for insight into how devastating

Quora: What are your feelings towards your adopted child?

Quora: Does the American government stimulate the adoption of foreign children with disabilities?

My answer to a question originally published on Quora. Q: Why does the American government stimulate the adoption of foreign children with disabilities? What's the use of these children for the country's welfare and future? My