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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. Then, there’s all the in-betweens.

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The Leadership Side of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

Product Management University

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. As an individual contributor, i.e., product manager.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. And it might feel a bit lonelier than when you were an active member of a product trio. Trevor Acy, Balancing Time for Learning and Bias for Action Meet Trevor Acy, the Associate Director of Product Management at Ramsey Solutions.

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Leadership Without Authority on Steroids

The Product Coalition

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. I’ll start with the former.

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485: How product managers can navigate “Big-Bet” transformations – with John Rossman

Product Innovation Educators

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. And Digg is an iconic brand, really amazing products in its time. Take product managers. How do we fix it?”