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The Execution Gap Lives in The Translation Layer
Your execution gap isn't about poor delivery or unclear strategy. It's about the invisible translation layer between them that nobody's managing.
Nov 22, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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AI Hype, PM Identity, and the Illusion of Specialization
You've made a meme with Nano Banana that got 5 laughing emojis in the team Slack channel. Is that enough to call yourself an AI PM?
Feb 5
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Angel Stanev
PM Skills Shift: Less Discovery, More Systems Thinking
The craft of product management is quietly transforming. The PMs who thrive in the next decade won't be the best interviewers. They'll be the ones who…
Jan 22
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Angel Stanev
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Not Every Company Needs to Be Product Led
Dec 8, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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Stress Testing Your Strategy Before You Ruin Everything
Oct 9, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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The Mini-CEO Fantasy: A Title That Flatters Everyone Except Reality
Dec 18, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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Discovery Theatre: When User Research Becomes Strategy’s Alibi
Jul 10, 2025
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Angel Stanev
When Product Leadership Speaks and Engineering Hears Static
Sep 25, 2025
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Angel Stanev
Your OKRs Were Dead Before You Wrote Them
Sep 4, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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The Measurement Trap: Why New PM Productivity Metrics Might Be Solving the Wrong Problem
The scramble to quantify what product managers actually do has spawned a fresh generation of metrics. Most of them are measuring the PM, not the product…
Jan 15
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Angel Stanev
The Outcomes Delusion: Why the Thing Everyone Agrees On Keeps Failing in Practice
Product leaders have been preaching outcomes over outputs for a decade now. The sermon is correct. The congregation just can't figure out how to…
Jan 1
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Angel Stanev
The Mini-CEO Fantasy: A Title That Flatters Everyone Except Reality
The "PM as CEO of the product" metaphor has been floating around for twenty years. It's done more damage to the profession than any other single idea.
Dec 18, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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THE EXECUTION GAP
Bridging the Strategy to Execution Gap in Product
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AI Hype, PM Identity, and the Illusion of Specialization
You've made a meme with Nano Banana that got 5 laughing emojis in the team Slack channel. Is that enough to call yourself an AI PM?
Feb 5
•
Angel Stanev
The Measurement Trap: Why New PM Productivity Metrics Might Be Solving the Wrong Problem
The scramble to quantify what product managers actually do has spawned a fresh generation of metrics. Most of them are measuring the PM, not the product…
Jan 15
•
Angel Stanev
The Outcomes Delusion: Why the Thing Everyone Agrees On Keeps Failing in Practice
Product leaders have been preaching outcomes over outputs for a decade now. The sermon is correct. The congregation just can't figure out how to…
Jan 1
•
Angel Stanev
The Mini-CEO Fantasy: A Title That Flatters Everyone Except Reality
The "PM as CEO of the product" metaphor has been floating around for twenty years. It's done more damage to the profession than any other single idea.
Dec 18, 2025
•
Angel Stanev
1
Not Every Company Needs to Be Product Led
The relentless push towards product-led growth has created a bizarre theatre where companies twist themselves into shapes they were never meant to hold.
Dec 8, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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PM Skills Shift: Less Discovery, More Systems Thinking
The craft of product management is quietly transforming. The PMs who thrive in the next decade won't be the best interviewers. They'll be the ones who…
Jan 22
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Angel Stanev
The Execution Gap Lives in The Translation Layer
Your execution gap isn't about poor delivery or unclear strategy. It's about the invisible translation layer between them that nobody's managing.
Nov 22, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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Strategy Lost in Translation: The Hierarchy Alignment Problem
The gap between strategic direction and actual execution isn't a communication problem. It's what happens when organizations optimize for consensus over…
Nov 13, 2025
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Angel Stanev
The Invisible UX/UI Debt That Grows While You're Not Looking
Rushed features leave invisible marks on your product. The bill comes due when growth stalls and nobody can explain it
Nov 6, 2025
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Angel Stanev
Product Ops Is an Amplifier, Not a Cure
The function everyone's hiring for might be amplifying the very problems it was meant to solve. And the uncomfortable truth is that no amount of process…
Oct 23, 2025
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Angel Stanev
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