THE EXECUTION GAP

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

January 2026

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 • 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

December 2025

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

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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 • Angel Stanev

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Why Teams That Know What to Do Still Won't Do It

Most execution problems aren't about clarity or skill. They're about teams who've learned that initiative gets punished, so they wait for permission…

Dec 2, 2025 • Angel Stanev

November 2025

When the New Boss Arrives: What Nobody Tells You About Product Leadership Transitions

Every product leadership change follows the same script. Until it doesn't. Here's why the playbook everyone's reading is missing the pages that actually…

Nov 27, 2025 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Angel Stanev

October 2025

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 • Angel Stanev