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Picking Your Hills to Die On: What to Do When You Can’t Disagree and Commit

In leadership roles, one of the most challenging aspects is deciding when to stand firm on an issue and when to “disagree and commit” for…

Nov 15

Picking Your Hills to Die On: What to Do When You Can’t Disagree and Commit

Nov 15

5 Essential Tips for Running Leadership Meetings (or any group that isn’t a full time team)…

There is plenty of literature and advice on how to run great team meetings and ceremonies, but there is far less on how to improve regular…

Aug 12

5 Essential Tips for Running Leadership Meetings (or any group that isn’t a full time team)…

Aug 12

3 Management Tips for Creating a High Trust Culture

It costs between 30%-50% of a person’s salary to replace them.

Mar 2

3 Management Tips for Creating a High Trust Culture

Mar 2

How Slack solved internal communications (and why email still sucks)

So this is not a blog I thought I would ever write, as I simply didn’t consider myself an expert on the topic of internal communications…

Dec 28, 2023

How Slack solved internal communications (and why email still sucks)

Dec 28, 2023

Creating High Performing (Hybrid) Product/Eng Teams

The most effective form of communication and collaboration is sitting physically in your own team room 5 days a week, however the…

Jul 28, 2023

Creating High Performing (Hybrid) Product/Eng Teams

Jul 28, 2023

Making OKRs work — the tl;dr

Context

Jan 8, 2023

Making OKRs work — the tl;dr

Jan 8, 2023

Turns out Executive Teams are hard work — here are 5 challenges to overcome should you join one…

Over the past 2.5 years I’ve spent my time and energy (as the Product Person) scaling the healthtech startup accurx. Their mission is to…

Oct 31, 2022

Turns out Executive Teams are hard work — here are 5 challenges to overcome should you join one…

Oct 31, 2022

Working with a PA for the first time

Half way through 2021 it became clear that I needed help.

Mar 18, 2022

Working with a PA for the first time

Mar 18, 2022

12 things I learnt moving into Product Leadership

A leader is best when people barely know they exist, when their work is done, their aim is fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Feb 22, 2022

12 things I learnt moving into Product Leadership

Feb 22, 2022

3 reasons why in-person conferences are awesome

I was lucky enough to attend TuringFest in Edinburgh this past week — it was the first time I’d been to a multi-day in-person conference…

Nov 7, 2021

3 reasons why in-person conferences are awesome

Nov 7, 2021

Benji Portwin

Benji Portwin

Head of Digital, Product and Design @NewLook. Previously @accurx, @HawkfishNYC, @Monzo, @Spotify, @NHSDigital, @GDSteam

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