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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. This is where persuasion skills are paramount to leadership.

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ONE THING on Product Leadership

Product Culture

Sarah must work closely with engineering, design, support, services, sales, marketing, and even finance to set expectations on what will be in the roadmap going forward and what will not. This is product leadership. That’s not to say it will be easy. Do you have similar stories?

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Why CFOs Should Embrace Human-First Leadership

Gainsight

Once, finance leaders had a simple mandate: Keep the books up to date, make sure the numbers add up, and track where the money flows. That changed over time, and finance now anchors every aspect of the organization in actionable analytics. Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Look in the mirror.

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Product/Market Fit is Failing Because of Your Company Structure

Mind the Product

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads. Different Teams, Different Priorities.

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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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How to Build a Go-to-Market Team for Your SaaS Company

Userpilot

With the right go-to-market team, your new launches won’t suffer unnecessary delays and you can increase adoption but focusing on the right things. TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. Create a go-to-market process (or processes) and train the team to follow them.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

  Do Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Engineering, and Product know/have what they need to support the plan?    (“We’ll dominate the market for X with industry-best profitability, winning products, highest NPS, 100%+ net renewals, and top employee satisfaction.”) Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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