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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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16 Product Manager Skills For SaaS Product Management

Userpilot

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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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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466: Use the 4 leadership motions to be more effective – with Janice Fraser

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. Nobody wants you to be more awesome than your manager does, because when you're amazing, your manager, his life gets easier, her life gets easier. They're testing me." They're not.

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Conversations, Conflict and Leadership – Roman Pichler on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Roman’s new book is How to Lead in Product Management. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Embracing Conflict is Product Management

Ronke PM

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.