O'reilly Design Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Leadership, the design of product teams, and hiring optimists.This week, I sit down with Nate Walkingshaw, chief experience officer of Pluralsite and co-author of Product Leadership. We talk about hard and soft leadership skills, building cross-disciplinary product teams, and why it’s important to use the layover test when hiring.Here are some highlights: Hard and soft skills for product leadership The two different paths are hard skills and soft skills. From a soft skills perspective, don't be a jerk. That's the first thing. Aggregated data wins a lot of debates around the workplace. So, come prepared. Kindness, humility, living in reality—I think those are simple things that continually come to the forefront that need to be restated all the time when you're working in a cross-functional environment. The way people experience you and the way you experience others really has to do with two things: conflict versus context. I think great leaders