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:
" Many organizations silo data inputs and prioritize within categories before combining results. "
AI for Prioritization (3rd of 3 seminars)
July 11, 2024
" Prioritization is one of those fractal topics that can go from the micro to the macro level. "
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
" You have to choose what you’re going to do in order to win—and implicitly what you’re not going to do. "
Priority Zero: Some Things are More Equal than Others
June 9, 2016
" Cultural shifts to experience-driven companies are less about creating new teams and more about creating a collective movement everyone owns. "
Discussion
June 9, 2016
