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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

Craft a compelling vision. Elon Musk is always the exemplar I point to when people ask me about crafting a compelling vision. He is also constantly tying every initiative at both Tesla and SpaceX back to their respective visions. But he knew the countless benefits of creating such an inspiring vision. Always be selling.

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The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Product managers feel that they are a part of the feature factory and not being able to concentrate on the vision and strategy of the product. Basecamp started off in 2003 as a tool that the internal development team built for themselves. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. Understand the bigger picture.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

The BBC was one of the first companies to enable content syndication, and in 2003 product manager Alex Pressland started to look at where it could be used. She teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams.

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In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration: Lessons for Business Leaders from Singapore’s Response to COVID-19

Business of Software Conference

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Without a clear vision that was centered on the problem at hand, the optics became the primary concern. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Can you take us back to the early days of Accelerate and what the original vision was?

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The Design Sprint Process – 11 Reasons To Love It

UX Studio

Author of The Design Sprint Jake Knapp offers a path to this vision. In 2003, Knapp – future father of The Design Sprint – realized that what he was doing at work wasn’t working. But what constitutes a design sprint? What are design sprint workshops? Are there specific “design sprint steps”?

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Even More Amazing Speakers for #mtpcon London 2017

Mind the Product

Blade wrote the book on speech-recognition interface design (Addison Wesley, 2003), The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice and his work and thoughts have been featured in publications including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on media including TechTV, NPR, and the BBC.