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How to deal with fighting between your execs? Carefully. Unlike parents and children, you can’t just tell them to go to their room and take away their TV privileges.


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I once observed VP #1 running up to the CEO and yelling, “It’s VP #2 or me!”

The CEO was an experienced leader (a parent too). He listened, and did nothing.

And both VP #1 and VP #2 stayed on.

I'm speaking on calming everyone down, and other tricks: Aligning Your Executive Team, at the Business of Software conference. March 25-26, Cambridge, UK. Coming? Ping me.


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Product Culture coach Melissa Appel will lead an open discussion for CPOs on Roadmaps: How to Justify Product Investments, February 29. How do you decide what to invest in? How to measure its success? How do you win stakeholder support for it? Register here.