Mar 4, 2022

In this OODACast, Matt talks with Chris Butler about how
concepts like adversarial thinking can be applied to product design
and management.  Chris is an exemplar of someone who has
excelled in his field but also looks to study and bring disruptive
ideas like randomness and future framing from other disciplines to
determine their value and applicability in product
management.   As it turns out, he’s a big fan of John
Boyd’s OODA Loop and even made a trip to the Boyd archives where he
discovered that Boyd was a fan of a certain science fiction
book.

Chris Butler is a chaotic good product manager, writer, and
speaker. He facilitates critical decision making for teams that
build new and innovative products. Chris focuses on bias,
uncertainty, and randomization to help build robust and resilient
teams. He has over 20 years of product management leadership at
Microsoft, Waze, KAYAK, and Facebook Reality Labs. He is now
Assistant Vice President, Head of Product Operations, at Cognizant
where he PM’s the PM experience.

Additional Information:

Book Recommendation:  Why Greatness Cannot be
Planned

https://amzn.to/3tvkIeN

Chris on LinkinedIn:

Chris on Twitter

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Chris on Medium