Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
Beth Antony: Navigating a Better Way Through the College Application Process
Entirely by word of mouth, educator and college counseling professional Beth Antony has built a successful business based on a simple truth: there is a better way to navigate the college application process. Her better way applies not just to kids applying to colleges, but to anyone who's trying to find their place, including businesses that are trying to find their market. Beth’s dedication to both her pro bono and for-profit clients is inspiring and uplifting.
Leadership Styles in Product Management
Over years of working with a range of tech leaders from all walks of life, Fortune’s Path has identified four leadership styles: the Finder, the Maker, the Delegator and the Decider. Most people use a combination of styles, but one or two tend to dominate. We take a closer look at each one.
Your First 30 Days in Product Management
Whether you’re a product lead at a fast-growing startup or a getting started with an established enterprise, the first 90 days are go-time to make an impact and secure your reputation as a can-do leader. Here’s your roadmap for the first 30 days.
Ray Guzman: AI and the Paper Ceiling
Tom talks with Ray Guzman, Army veteran, advisor, board member, strategist, and CEO of Switchpoint Ventures, an innovation enabler making AI investments in organizations that seek transformation through machine learning.
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Product Management
As product managers progress in their careers, they often struggle with imposter syndrome. How to overcome this limitation, and build towards success, requires self-awareness, patience, and equal doses of generosity and empathy. Here’s how.
Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie
Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.
Amin Haidar: Managing Product Managers
Amin Haidar, Director of Product Management at Asurion, talks about how he mentors and manages project managers and how Asurion decides what software development to prioritize and how to hold teams accountable. This one may be our best yet for practical advice about how to be and lead great product managers.
Walter Hindman: Junkdrop and Charity for Profit
How many of us have founded a profitable $800k business by the time we’re 26? Not many, but Walter Hindman has.
The company Walter founded, Junkdrop Nashville, connects those with too much with those with not enough. Learn why Walter never wants to sell anything he collects, why ecologically sensitive disposal is so important to his business, and what he loves most about being a leader.
Teja Yenamandra: How You Know it's Time to Raise Money
Why would you take on investors when you already have a profitable business you had boot strapped yourself? Is the advice you get from investors as important as the money? Are remote software teams as popular as they were during COVID? Teja Yenamandra, CEO and co-founder of Gun.io, a platform for matching tech talent with the best organizations, tackles all of these questions in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
Cooper McGoodwin: Prioritization and Delegating to a Two Year Old
Vice President of Product for Thnks, an on-line gratitude platform, Cooper McGoodwin talks about being a boss, pitfalls of agile and scrum, prioritization, and being a dad.