Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero. Before Xero, Diya was CPT at Okta and led YouTube's advertising monetization products at Google. In this conversation, she unpacks her three-bucket framework for delegating decisions, why the most important part of a CPO’s role is to drive team-wide ambition, and why the best executives need to spend half their time thinking, not doing.

In today's episode, we discuss:

Why a CPO's number one job is raising their team’s ambition, not shipping features

How to demand the best from your team without creating a fear-based culture

Why organizational politics is actually an incentives problem

How Diya is “militant” with her calendar to carve out dedicated thinking time

Why you should avoid chasing titles in your career - and what to chase instead

References:

Google: https://www.google.com

Melio: https://meliopayments.com

Okta: https://www.okta.com

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukhinders/