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Chris Butler is a renowned product manager, writer, and speaker, with over 20 years of expertise in Agile methodologies, product management, and complex problem-solving. He has been a product leader at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Cognizant, KAYAK, and Waze and has created techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine, Animistic Design Mapping, and Confusion Mapping to create cross-team alignment while building AI products. He is currently a Lead Product Manager at Google's Core Machine Learning team. Chris is an avid speaker and writer and regularly shares his knowledge and insights through talks, articles, and workshops.

Chapters found in this episode:

• Product Managers as Decision Facilitators 
• Why Alignment is Costly 
• Product Strategy, Org Charts and Agile 
• Product Playbooks? 
• A Discourse on Product Management 
• The Power of Narrative 
• Provo-typing? 
• The BS or Term Paper Economy 

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