In this conversation, Radhika Dutt shares her journey from engineering to becoming a thought leader in product management and organizational culture. She discusses the pitfalls of metric-driven approaches, the importance of focusing on long-term vision over short-term goals, and introduces her OHLs framework as a healthier alternative to traditional OKRs. Through personal anecdotes and professional insights, Radhika emphasizes the need for curiosity-driven leadership and the significance of creating an environment of psychological safety within teams.

Key Takeaways

• Radhika Dutt emphasizes the importance of vision over mere metrics.
• Metrics can lead to performance theater, obscuring real impact.
• Curiosity-driven leadership fosters better problem-solving.
• Personal stories can illustrate the impact beyond metrics.
• The OHLs framework offers a new approach to goal setting.
• Vision debt can demoralize teams and hinder progress.
• Reflecting on experiences is crucial for learning.
• Creating psychological safety encourages open communication.
• Balancing KPIs with long-term vision is essential.
• Asking the right questions can transform team dynamics.

About Radhika Dutt

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. The methodology she introduced in her first book is now used in over 40 countries. She is an entrepreneur, speaker, and product leader who has participated in five acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator), and does consulting and training for organizations ranging from high-tech startups to multinationals on building radical products that create a fundamental change. Radhika has built products in a wide range of industries including broadcast, media and entertainment, telecom, advertising technology, government, consumer apps, robotics, and even wine. She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages.

Radhika is now working on her second book – it’s about why goals and targets backfire and what actually works.

Helpful Links:

LinkedIn profile

Radhika’s Website

Radical Product Thinking (website for the methodology and Radhika’s first book)

Speaker reel

Links to the OHL framework/ toolkit

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