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Building for change: When transformation and product management meet

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Product Ethics

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The Product Experience

<p>[powerpress]<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8676" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jeff-gothelf-300x300.jpg" alt="Jeff Gothelf" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jeff-gothelf-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jeff-gothelf-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jeff-gothelf.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p class="m_-8762107488804828346gmail-p3">After starting his career on the road with a circus (yes, really), no business setting should ever be a challenge for Jeff Gothelf &#8211; after all, he&#8217;s worked with <em>real</em> clowns.  Jeff sat down with our hosts for a rare in-person conversation during Scotland&#8217;s Turing Festival to chat about effecting change, focusing on outcomes, using lean and agile principles in his own life, and the value of training.</p>
<h3>Quote of the Episode</h3>
<blockquote><p>The school of thought for leaders who have been in place for 15 to 20 years is based in manufacturing, where we tell our people what to do, and their job is to execute on that as efficiently as possible.</p>
<p>In a technology or software-driven organisation, we&#8217;re building systems. And the production of the system is not the definition of success any more. It&#8217;s the optimisation of that system to create better customer outcomes. And the people closest to the system have the most amount of information, and can make the best decisions. But [for leaders], giving them the power to make the decisions is terrifying.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Listen if you&#8217;d like to learn more about</h3>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: inherit;">How to talk to the leaders in your organisation</span></li>
<li><span style="color: inherit;">Why changing organisations is so hard</span></li>
<li>The lean development of a publishing company, and why short books are good</li>
<li>The value of training</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: inherit; font-family: rawline, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem;">Links mentioned in this episode</span></p>
<ul>
<li>Keep up with Jeff on <a href="https://twitter.com/jboogie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gothelf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>, at <a href="https://gothelf.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his site</a> (where you can also see his upcoming classes), and his publishing venture with former guest Josh Seiden, <a href="https://www.senseandrespondpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sense &amp; Respond press</a></li>
<li>Want to become a Sense &amp; Respond author? <a href="https://www.senseandrespondpress.com/submit-proposal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Submit a proposal</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hosts</h3>
<p>The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.</p>
<p><strong>Lily</strong> enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products &#8211; leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers&#8217; meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol &amp; Bath.</p>
<p>A recovering music journalist and editor, <strong>Randy</strong> has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media &amp; entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he&#8217;s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton&#8230; so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-14548" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-300x300.png" alt="The Product Experience logo" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-300x300.png 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-150x150.png 150w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-768x768.png 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-1024x1024.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<h3>Music</h3>
<p>Our theme music is from Hamburg-based Pau, featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s own Arne Kittler on bass. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Paupulism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to more on their Facebook page</a></p>
<h3>Suggest a guest</h3>
<p>Have you seen someone give a great talk? <a href="https://mindtheproduct.typeform.com/to/oi0UyX" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Suggest a guest to us here</a></p>
<h3>Talk to us</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MTPpod" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tweet at us!</a></li>
<li>Use the #podcast channel in the <a href="https://mindtheproduct.slack.com/messages/CE13B3A23" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mind the Product Slack community</a></li>
</ul>

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