Corporate Underpants
Corporate Underpants
Podcast Description
Uncomfortable truths, hidden dynamics, and the messy underbelly of corporate life—welcome to Corporate Underpants, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on the challenges holding back great teams and ideas. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, or leader, this series is your guide to navigating office politics, aligning stakeholders, and tackling the organizational hurdles that stand between you and making a real impact.
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Content Themes
The podcast addresses uncomfortable truths in workplace culture, tackling themes such as UX design, stakeholder engagement, and organizational politics. Examples include stories like Jillian Hudson's experience with UX democratization and the chaos caused by misalignment in Jeff Verona's project.
Uncomfortable truths, hidden dynamics, and the messy underbelly of corporate life—welcome to Corporate Underpants, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on the challenges holding back great teams and ideas. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, or leader, this series is your guide to navigating office politics, aligning stakeholders, and tackling the organizational hurdles that stand between you and making a real impact.
Julie Francis and I have been solving the same problem from two different angles for over 20 years. She does it through journey mapping. I do it through alignment personas. This week we finally compared notes—and discovered we’ve been circling the same uncomfortable truth: it’s not about better deliverables. It’s about better alignment.
We get into why the map isn’t the point, what “there’s nothing new in here” actually means, why shared documents are not shared understanding (cake wrecks, anyone?), and what it looks like to do senior product work when your job is facilitation, not output.
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