The following article "News: Paramount-WBD, NBA TV, 97.3 The Game and more" originally appeared on Sports Media Watch. The latest news on Paramount’s pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Plus, NBA TV introduces a new game lineup and programming slate; 97.3 The Game changes formats; and news on Alyssa Lang, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, Max Kellerman and Danny Green. Paramount’s Ellison “considering his options” for WBD purchase Paramount Skydance approached Warner Bros. Discovery i...| Sports Media Watch
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Alex Howard, who joined Eightcap as its CEO in early 2023, has left the company. According to his LinkedIn profile, he held the role of Managing Director of Regulated Markets before departing from ...| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
I've been an interim CPO 15 times, more than almost anyone else, and have mentored scores of CPOs over the last 25 years. Those who have been through more than a few product leadership roles naturally think about what we might be doing instead. (Hint: something easier and more fun!| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Explore how to provide effective employer feedback for recruiters to optimize the search for your ideal candidate.| Bristol Associates, Inc.
I’ve seen and heard it countless times over the years: an HR leader or CX professional comes to the executive table asking for investment in employee experience (EX) or customer experience (CX), respectively, only to hear the same old tired line: "We’d love to, but there are competing priorities." Let’s call this what it is: a cop-out. Because nothing truly competes with putting people first - if you actually understand that the people are the engine of your business. So why do “compe...| CX Journey™
Toronto-based Diversio launches Optimo, combining AI and behavioural science to help managers reduce turnover 60% and boost effectiveness by 40%.| Diversio
Polish retail broker XTB has lost its head of artificial intelligence after Tomasz Gawron left last month to join a government-backed research institute, marking another high-profile departure in t...| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
CFD broker Kudotrade has hired Stathis Flangofas as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as the company prepares to launch its proprietary trading platform later this month.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
The CEO of online trading platform Erkin Kamran has announced that he is stepping down from his role “to work on a new build at the intersection of tradfi and web3.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
FYNXT appoints Stephen Miles as Chief Revenue Officer to lead global sales, marketing, and commercial operations, bringing APAC and EMEA experience.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Rosemary Barnes has launched PR Plug, a new venture aimed at supporting in fintech, forex, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Ex-central banker takes N26 helm . In this week’s leadership shake-ups, German neobank N26 appointed former Bundesbank executive Andreas Dombret to chair its supervisory board.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
German neobank N26 is bringing in former Bundesbank executive Andreas Dombret to chair its supervisory board, capping months of turmoil between investors and the company's founding team.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Garen Meserlian is the new Chief Operating Officer at the CFD broker easyMarkets, according to his LinkedIn post today (Wednesday).| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Polish online trading platform XTB announced this week it has appointed Bartosz Osiński as Management Board Member for Risk, pending approval from the country's financial regulator.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Ultima Markets, which recently gained a United Kingdom licence, has strengthened its top management by onboarding Gareth Derbyshire as the Chief Strategy Officer, FinanceMagnates.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
The U.S.-regulated prediction marketplace Kalshi hired John Wang, a 23-year-old crypto entrepreneur turned social media influencer, to spearhead the company's push into digital assets.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Michael Logue leaves IG after 13 years, holding 14 roles across operations, marketing, product, and analytics, with a stint at tastytrade.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
BaFin pressure and investor tensions push N26 joint CEO Valentin Stalf to step down, join supervisory board after six-month transition.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
The contract for differences (CFD) broker Capital.com has appointed Travis Robson as the CEO for South Africa, according to an announcement by Robson on LinkedIn.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
Trading technology provider oneZero has appointed Adam Collins as Head of Institutional Sales for the Americas and EMEA. In the newly created role, Collins will be responsible for leading oneZero’s...| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
For a long time, I've been asserting that most* B2B revenue-side executives can't hear anything we say unless it includes a currency symbol. Sentences lacking a $ or € or £ are inaudible. That includes explanations about how we build things: roadmaps full of boxes and project names; agile methodologies; analytics that show| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
For someone who just took the helm of a massive communications company, Lumen Techno | The internal culture shift Johnson is pushing is perhaps the biggest task ahead and one which will impact Lumen’s ability to meet its financial and product objectives.| Fierce Network
B2C2, the crypto market maker owned by Japanese conglomerate SBI, is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia and has appointed Laura Teo as Singapore Country Head and Head of Sales, APAC.| Financial and Business News | Finance Magnates
I’m sometimes pulled into difficult discussions with CEOs, where I’m trying to describe systematic product-side failures that directly conflict with how the CEO sees the world. Even after dozens of similar discussions, I have only moderate success. But it seems worth framing this leadership-level challenge from both sides.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Internal and external hiring each bring distinct advantages and trade‑offs. Find out which approach is best for your next executive opening.| Bristol Associates, Inc.
The PGA Tour launched a search in late 2024 for its first-ever CEO and zeroed in on longtime NFL exec Brian Rolapp for the role.| Sportico.com
(this builds on my June difficult discussions [https://www.mironov.com/difficult/] post) As good product folks, we know that customers must recognize a problem before they consider buying our solution. Companies that don’t have supply chain issues (or think they don’t) are not in the market for| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to schedule it. Recently a product leader shared with me an OKR to ship one major innovation each quarter, measured as “users will give each innovative feature a top rating.” This| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
There’s a funny bit of split thinking that I often run into, and which came up in a recent CPO coaching discussion. It’s when we confuse delivering a new (or re-architected) platform and pushing the very last customer off the old version to free up teams that keep| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I joined an International all-star group of speakers and workshop leaders for Product at Heart in Hamburg on Sept 11-13. Here's my talk called "Business Cases Are Stories about Money" This was a great 3-day event with a half-day product leadership forum, workshops, and : main conference with speakers including Melissa| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Boardroom's Nick DePaula dives deep into Elliott Hill's new reign at Nike, getting the inside scoop from Nike employees and industry leaders.| Boardroom
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Expanding on a recent post (Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on. This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies,| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of one-off specials and “small requirements.” There’s tremendous pressure to maximize the importance of a feature tweak to close this quarter’s big deal, and similar pressure to minimize both| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue. In my experience, this is mostly ineffective if it’s done only once a year — especially| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Product and engineering leaders tend to be analytical, and we think of prioritization as an algorithmic problem. Unfortunately, other execs see a different kind of problem...| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while. One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
