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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. You need to have a product strategy. There are many ways to crisp up your strategy. It always helps.

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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

ProductPlan

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Those product managers are proactive and focus on the future to plot their product strategy.

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

Be sure to come to the BPMA event on May 13 th called “ High Performance Leadership: Leveraging the Neuroscience & Social Secrets of Confidence ” presented by Alyssa to soak up her zany stories and valuable tips. She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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Design Led or Designer Led? By Liam Casey

Mind the Product

The talk gave careful consideration to how design and product can integrate with strategy to produce the right kind of alignment for the company and outcomes for the customer. Align Design Strategy With Leadership Ambitions. The program’s effectiveness was measured against growth in digital exports.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

Banff Interactive Screen 2003, Banff, Canada Flash Forward 2002, San Francisco, U.S. Paul Ortchanian is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses. A lack of strategy in planning your products is accompanied by a lack of focus and direction, which means things can quickly get out of hand.

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Technology Gets Old One Day at a Time: Broken Blog Feeds and What You Missed

Johanna Rothman

When I started to blog in 2003, I used Blogger. I also published March's Pragmatic Manager: Leadership Tip #18: Invest in the People You Lead and Serve. Our strategy depends on our execution. So we have feedback loops from strategy to execution and tools and back again. I'm sure I used most of them.). I bet you are.

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Product Manager’s Reality

The Product Coalition

They need to have technical/processual skills as well as those lauded, but ever elusive, leadership skills. Shown below, the main responsibilities of the PM include: product strategy, roadmapping & release management, product requirements management, and market/product research. It looks like we’re not doing so well.