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You can feel when a team is chasing numbers instead of solving problems. We invited author and product leader Radhika Dutt to walk us through a practical shift: build a vision your team can use, then turn that vision into decisions you can defend. No fluff, no vague slogans—just a clear blueprint for who you’re serving, the pain you’re addressing, and how your product truly changes their world.

Radhika breaks down the “product diseases” that creep into organizations when vision is fuzzy: pivotitis from chasing shiny ideas, obsessive sales disorder from one-off deals, and strategic swelling that tries to be everything to everyone. She then shows how to pivot with gravitas by explaining what you learned, where you were wrong, and why the next move makes sense. We map trade-offs on two axes—long-term vision and short-term survival—so teams can spot when to invest, when to accept vision debt, and how to avoid the slow slide into roadmap chaos.

We also dig into why goals and targets often backfire, splintering collaboration across sales, product, and marketing. The antidote is puzzle-setting: define the shared puzzle, run focused experiments, and ask three simple questions—how well did it work, what did we learn, and what will we try next? Radhika shares a striking case study where honoring tech-averse users’ need for control (not “magic” automation) doubled sales two years in a row. Along the way, we show how the same framework can guide your personal choices, helping you balance purpose with survival so work feels energizing, not soul-sucking.

If you’re ready to replace fluff with focus, and targets with learning, this conversation is your playbook. Grab the free Radical Product Thinking toolkit, explore puzzle-setting with the OHL’s Toolkit, and tell us how you’re aligning your next decision with your vision. Subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Product-Thinking-Mindset-Innovating/dp/1523093315

Website: https://rdutt.com/

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Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radhika-dutt/

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