People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

By leaning into the positive, you instinctively start to relax. Turn on your best smile, be positive, and thank the person for the opportunity to (re)state the reasoning. Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. This is an excellent opportunity.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. What is an Engineering Manager?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. Denise gave us three strategies to stop this self-sabatoge: Remind yourself, just because you’re thinking something, doesn’t mean it’s true. We all have negative thoughts.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. I couldn’t fathom why not, especially since these problems would then be addressed months later, with similar strategies as I proposed but driven by somebody else.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. So you got to start with positioning.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where. We were in a position where. And this was a great concept.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

This is an entry-level position, for someone who is brand new to the role. The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. Associate Product Manager.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth. “What got me in the door is someone believing in me, then I took the burden of proof as a mission in every position I ever got. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. “I started as a software developer.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé? Are they super specific in what they’re looking for or searching for an athlete to grow into the position and evolve with it over time?

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. The scenarios and characters are realistic and familiar.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Deckle Edge. Of course the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey has been taught to me by mentors and has been as staple throughout my career. Good to Great by Jim Collins. I related to that book a lot.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Description: A three-day event with rich content in several tracks, brain dates with coolest minds in SaaS, mentoring sessions with entrepreneurs from all around the world and the opportunity to score VC funding from billionaires!

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not only that, but Forrester also recognized Atlassian’s strategy for enterprise service management with the highest possible score. Instead, we use our open integrations strategy to bring this capability to customers. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee. I want you to evaluate your positions and think about hey Fred was really successful in that role and Bob was not.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Remember when social media was going to be all things about positive change for the world and people had big banners that said “thank you Facebook”? Information sharing is all positive. I think the main thing was… what is it they say, often tactics drives strategy? The first one is market relevance. I do simple things right.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete. I was a self-taught coder.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

From major players in the field such as Delphix and ADP to Okta, Lumen, and Glint, get ready to hear about Customer Success Operations, CS at Scale, CS Strategy, Human First Customer Success, and Product Experience. Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement.

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