Links for Product & Design Leaders
Welcome to my collection of product & design leadership resources. This isn't an "ultimate list" or comprehensive library—it's simply the articles, guides, and tools I find myself recommending repeatedly to the leaders I work with. I update this collection regularly, adding new discoveries and removing links that become less relevant over time.
I've organized these resources in two ways: by leadership stage (find the section that matches your current role) and by topic (for specific challenges you're facing). Whether you're a new leader or a seasoned veteran, I hope you'll find something valuable here.
Resources for your role
For New Product & Design Leaders
If you're new to leadership (first-time director or VP), start here:
For Veteran Product & Design Leaders
If you're an experienced leader looking to level up:
Resources by topic
- How to Validate Your Product Idea
- What Really Is Product Validation
- Don't Confuse Product Validation with Product Research
- Product Validation, Testing and Researching Ideas
- Product Validation Guide
- Product Discovery Guide
- Best Customer Interview Questions
- Validating Your Startup Idea
- A UX Research Crash Course for Founders
- The S-Curve Pattern of Innovation
- Reid Hoffman's Two Rules for Strategy Decisions
- Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
- How to Shape Remarkable Products in the Messy Middle of Building Startups
- Product Alignment Framework at Miro
- Double Diamond Framework
- Product Sense
- The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking
- CEOs and Product Leaders
- A Taxonomy of Moats
- What Is a Good Growth Rate?
- The Exponential Growth Guide
- Growth Product Managers: What They Do and Why You Need Them
- Growth Experiment Guide
- Designing Product Experiments
- Product-Led Growth Tech Stack
- How to Achieve Product-Led Growth
- 20 Interesting PLG Learnings from Leaders in SaaS
- Best User Onboarding Examples
- Don't Make These Frequent Freemium SaaS Mistakes
- Eladgil Growth Blog
- Continuous Experimentation
- Experimenting with Product Pricing Guide
- The Most Common Go-to-Market Questions from Founders
- Go-to-Market (GTM) as a PM
- Network Effects Bible
- Mental Models Part One
- Keep Them Coming Back
- Between Sales and Product: Building Self-Serve and Customer Experience
- 3 Strategies to Avoid B2B Pitfalls of PLG
- The Rise of the COO Role (Part 1)
- The Rise of the COO Role (Part 2)
- How to Send Internal Product Updates Stakeholders Will Read
- How to Update Internal Stakeholders Weekly
- The Product Manager's Guide to Status Updates
- How to Write a Product Status Report
- Product Status Report Template & Examples
- Rethinking Google's Famous LaunchCal
- How to Unlock the Power of Money Words in Copy
- 5 Essential Business Skills for Product Managers
- How to Sell Your Ideas Up the Chain of Command
- Investing in Internal Documentation: A Guide for Startups
- Two-Way Writeups: Coda's Secret to Shipping Fast
- How to Get Useful Answers to Your Questions
- How Top Product Managers Work with Engineers
- How to Scale Yourself Down, Not Up, as a Leader
- Calling Out Room Dynamics
- Managing Your Manager
- Stop Overcomplicating It: The Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game
- Rules for Persuasive Dissent
- The Rule of Thirds for Time Management
- Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart
- CEOs and Product Leaders
- How to Do Less
- SaaS Org Chart
- Remote Hiring Guide
- The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup