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Jan 7, 2025 | 
medium.com | Christopher Cummings
Christopher A. Cummings·Follow5 min read·--An old-building enthusiast posted this picture on Facebook. It shows the Empire State building in New York City before NYC was the NYC many of us know today. The building was built in the 1930s. You can see that at this time it was the only skyscraper standing. Surrounding it looks like ordinary housing where ordinary working folks lived.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Matthew Abbott |Andre Bouchard |André Bouchard |Christopher Cummings |Adam M. Givertz |Christian Kurtz | +8 more
The following is our summary of significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the third quarter of 2024 of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors. SDNY Court Deals Blow to SEC Cyber Enforcement, Dismisses Most Charges Against SolarWinds and Its CISOOn July 18, 2024, Judge Paul A.
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May 14, 2024 | 
wkrn.com | Christopher Cummings |Sierra Rains
MACON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The name of a Macon County sergeant who lost his life in a crash last year is now forever engraved on a stone wall nearly 700 miles away in Washington D.C.Sgt. William JaceCherry was among seven Tennessee law enforcement officers whose names were added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on Monday, May 13.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
As a product manager, do you ever get frustrated by UX designers who want to influence decision-making, but don’t know how? As a UX person, do you find it frustrating when product managers won’t take your thoughts into consideration? The Thompson Twin’s 1983 pop song “We Are Detective” tells the playful story of detectives who are being spied on by other detectives, and there are lessons in here for how product management and UX can better cooperate to drive bigger business outcomes.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Cummings |David Huntington |Brian Janson |Luke Jennings |Christodoulos Kaoutzanis |John Kennedy | +3 more
On December 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the SEC’s share repurchase disclosure rule, which would have required public companies to disclose their reasons for repurchasing shares, and to collect daily repurchase data and file it quarterly. The Fifth Circuit had previously held that the SEC’s adoption of the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act, and had remanded the matter to the SEC and directed it to correct the noted deficiencies within 30 days.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
Two Types of Product Managers I love jokes because they can accomplish multiple objectives at once: Break tension, reduce stress, and pave the way for actual conversation. Feel free to deploy today’s #PMJoke at your convenience:New Around Here? Subscribe to receive future updates. Connect with me on LinkedIn.Follow me on Twitter to continue the conversation!Like this:Like Loading...
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
Starting in the late 1970s, Hostess hired comic book creators to produce a series of single-page ads to promote Hostess fruit pies, cup cakes, and other desserts. In the Hostess ad Blown About, the Human Torch’s battle against the villainous Blow Dryer provides a tasty framework for helping Product Managers navigate an ever-changing market landscape. < SPOILER WARNING > This article features key plot points from one of these bizarre 40-year-old comic book ads.
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May 26, 2023 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
Jack Rebney, aka “Winnebago Man”, aka “The World’s Angriest Man”, passed away recently at the age of 93. Rebney is probably the most famous person you’ve never heard of, but you have likely heard his voice. He was a former RV salesman whose hysterical, explosive, profanity-laced outbursts circulated on VHS tapes in the 1990s and then became one of the web’s first viral sensations in the early 2000s.
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Apr 8, 2023 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
Product management is a truth quest. Not to be grandiose, but — at its core — that’s what this field is. Our job as Product Managers is to find the truth, understand it, quantify it, qualify it because it may be true and also irrelevant to what we’re seeking to accomplish, and then make the relevant truths understandable to others so the business can make informed decisions about strategy and tactics. There’s more to it than that. But it’s not less than that.
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Apr 2, 2023 | 
christophercummings.com | Christopher Cummings
G.I. Joe #27 is a comic book written by Larry Hama with pencils by Frank Springer, published by Marvel Comics in 1984, which explores the origin of the popular Joe code-named Snake-Eyes. < SPOILER WARNING >Key plotpoints are pictured below as we explore how product managers can improve cross-functional collaboration.
