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Why We Fail: What I Learned From 5 Years with Friends, Netflix’s Social Strategy

Mind the Product

Netflix’s Friends (Born 2004, died 2010). Netflix launched Friends in 2004, the year that Facebook grew from one million to six million members. Product leadership requires optimism. You need hope to overcome the inevitable challenges of product leadership. A Brief History of Netflix’s Friends.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Toronto 2004, Canada Flash Forward 2004, San Francisco, U.S. Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S. Reach out to me at info@bainpublic.com.

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Boosting Team Performance By Building PM Capabilities

BrainMates

Or does your team need someone who is more “like them”, that would take your product leadership and apply it? Brainmates has been helping organisations level up their Product Managers since 2004 and can help you level up your team. That is, does your team need a strong product thinker?

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TEI 225: Create a movement for a product – with Greg Satell

Product Innovation Educators

In 2004, I found myself running a news organization in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Orange Revolution. Leadership comes in to unite those groups around a sense of shared purpose and inspire and empower their members. In 2004, I found myself running a news organization in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Orange Revolution.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

2: Abandon Leadership Colonialism. Abandoning leadership colonialism, or the notion that practices from your primary culture can be successfully applied anywhere else without substantial modification, is one of the first steps towards the better management of your diverse product team’s culture. Become a Cultural Chameleon. References.

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AI, Autonomy, and the Build Trap – Announcing our first three speakers for #mtpcon SF

Mind the Product

Nate started his first company in 2004 where he revolutionized medical evacuation with Paraslyde, later acquired by Stryker Medical. He is also the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O’Reilly 2017). Nate Walkingshaw, Author and CXO Pluralsight.

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Introducing the Speakers for MTP Engage Manchester 2019

Mind the Product

Formed in 2004, THG (The Hut Group) has grown from a start-up business to a global digital commerce group, fast becoming one of the world’s leading beauty and well-being online retail organisations. Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles.