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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

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

Making OKRs work — the tl;dr

Context

Jan 8, 2023

Making OKRs work — the tl;dr

Jan 8, 2023

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

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

Benji Portwin

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

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Running Great Retros

“Retrospectives are dedicated time to examine how something went and learn lessons for the future.”

May 16, 2021

Running Great Retros

May 16, 2021

Benji Portwin

Benji Portwin

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

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