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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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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

ProductPlan

When Apple introduced iTunes in 2003, it “fundamentally challenged how customers accessed music,” said Andrew B, a Senior Product Manager for deep tech and sustainability. A familiar example of a proactive product strategy is Apple’s iTunes Store.

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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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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.

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Take a Peloton Ride with Amy Bunszel, SVP of Design and Creation Products at Autodesk

Gainsight

In 1996, Amy started her own business that was later acquired by Autodesk in 2003. ” That is when Amy explained how she brought a consumer product mindset to Autodesk’s product and development organization to combat their limited vision of customer experience. .” Resilience Equals Love of Challenges.

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It’s Not Just You: Trends Are Moving Faster Than Ever

Roy Madden

To put it in perspective, there have been 5,000 petabytes of information created from the dawn of civilization to 2003. More eyes, better vision: Crowdsource monitoring. Google publishes 20 petabytes of information every day, according to Promodo in 2013. In 2014, WordPress reported that it was publishing 17 posts every second—or 1.5

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

You can also take a look at his Eugene’s Twitter profile if you want a shorter, up-to-date window into his vision of the current product scene. He founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Stanford. For more, see his Twitter profile.