Adam Thomas
Managing Director at Approaching One
Expertise: Product management, strategy, leadership and organizational psychology
Education: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Adam Thomas helps overwhelmed product leaders stop taking orders and start shipping impactful products. As the creator of Survival Metrics and the Five Deadly Sins of Strategy frameworks, he gives teams practical tools to make smarter bets, align around strategy, and deliver with confidence.
Through his workshops, coaching, and consulting, Adam has worked with companies from startups to enterprises, helping product teams transform uncertainty into clarity. He also writes a popular newsletter and frequently speaks at conferences and on podcasts about product strategy, metrics and leadership.
You can learn more about his work — and access free resources — at theadamthomas.com.
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If your product team is spinning its wheels, this technique can help get you unstuck.
The Kruskal-Wallis test is an important statistical analysis for data that doesn’t follow normal distributions. Our expert shows you how it works here.
We can collect massive amounts of data, but all that information is useless if it doesn’t lead to concrete actions. Our expert lays our the RAQ framework to get you from thinking to doing.
When a strategy stops working or gets ignored by most of a company, you’re likely dealing with one of five common problems — the deadly sins. Our expert explains how to conquer them.
Information architecture is a vital concept for UX designers to understand to ensure the products you make are both intelligible and discoverable. Our expert explains the basic principles to you here.
Product managers face constant pressure to innovate, but research suggests the majority of ideas have no impact on a company’ s bottom line. So, how can you tell which ideas you should focus on and which are a waste of time?
Design sprints are a great tool to get a stuck team moving. Here’s how to run your own so you can start building great products.
Experience design is a crucial component of building a great product. Here are the basics of the discipline.
What makes a product strategy work? It reduces ambiguity and focuses a team’s attention on the most important elements of its work.
Wireframes are to product and design teams what blueprints are to architects. Wireframes allow us to understand critical systems and an application’s building blocks before creating the entire application.
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