<p>Too often, product managers work as human middleware between their teams and tools, burning out great people with administrative friction instead of building energising high-performance cultures. Life is short—you need to get your time back.</p> <p>In this episode, Ross Webb (who built product teams at Amazon serving 80,000+ IT professionals) explores how AI transforms team leadership by streamlining management processes, reducing PM stress, and enabling sustainable high performance.</p> <p><b>What You'll Learn:</b></p> <ul><li>Why top product leaders think like part-time recruiters and become "talent factories"</li><li>How actively seeking to be wrong makes you a better, more effective leader</li><li>The balance between decision-making authority and collaborative experimentation</li><li>How to drive high performance whilst preventing team burnout and maintaining wellbeing</li><li>How AI can automate performance tracking, workload balancing, and communication coordination</li></ul> <p><b>Featured Guests:</b></p> <ul><li><b>Jordan Burton</b> - Talent development expert on the "talent factory" mindset and ecosystem building</li><li><b>Harrison Baker</b> - Leadership specialist on curiosity, questioning, and situational reading</li><li><b>Annika Schmid</b> - Decision-making strategist on reversible vs irreversible choices and rapid experimentation</li><li><b>Kris Jones</b> - Performance management expert on sustainable high performance and burnout prevention</li></ul> <p><b>Key Takeaways:</b></p> <ul><li>High-performance teams aren't about finding perfect people—they're about creating systems for excellence</li><li>The shift from "smartest person in the room" to "surround myself with incredible talent" defines leadership</li><li>Speed of learning often trumps perfection of planning in most product decisions</li><li>AI can eliminate the administrative burden that burns out talented team members</li></ul> <p><b>Sponsored by FlowFocus AI</b> - The agentic AI system that connects your entire product stack (Jira, Amplitude, PostHog, roadmapping tools, competitive intelligence) and saves product managers 5-10 hours per week. Because life is too short to be human middleware.</p>