Harry Max
Author of Managing Priorities
Harry Max is an executive player-coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader with vision and a solid grasp of operations. He is a managing partner at Peak Priorities, LLC.
A Silent Leader at heart, Harry works with senior leaders and their teams to help them realize their visions by zeroing in on pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.
Max’s experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and strategy consultant with startups, innovators, and global brands, includ - ing Apple, Adobe, PDI/DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica, ITHAKA, Microsoft, PayPal, productOps, Rackspace, SGI, Symantec, and Yotascale. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (Wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.
Harry Max is an autodidact. His undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on qualitative problem-solving and sociology. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a graduate of the Hoffman Institute and Aspen Institute’s Tech Executive Leadership Initiative (TELI).
Harry’s work has been featured internationally in the Economist, The New York Times, TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, and a Harvard Business School case study. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Rosenverse talks by Harry:
" Nobody’s gonna listen to you people until you start speaking in the language of business. "
AI for Prioritization (3rd of 3 seminars)
July 11, 2024
" Start with yourself in prioritization, and you’ll likely infect your team and then the organization. "
Prioritization for Leaders (2nd of 3 seminars)
June 27, 2024
" If you spend 15 out of 62 business days prioritizing and still don’t have a clear list, you’re probably prioritizing at the wrong level. "
Prioritization for designers and product managers (1st of 3 seminars)
June 13, 2024
" We talked to fifty people and started to see how the world was shaping up in terms of what we needed to do. "
Priority Zero: Some Things are More Equal than Others
June 9, 2016
" I’m adopting a mindset of vulnerability and openness to failure because the worst outcome won’t shut the servers down or fire people. "
Discussion
June 9, 2016
