2006 Leadership Weak Development Team 
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
The quote is attributed to Ford himself for the first time in a letter sent to the UK publication Marketing Week in 2001: “Being market-led implies being led by the consumer — and consumers are bad at coming up with innovations (Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” springs to mind…).”
Mind the Product
MAY 16, 2018
In 2006, Alan Mulally took over as president and CEO of a struggling Ford Motor Company. But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford Motor Company. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?
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Mind the Product
AUGUST 19, 2019
Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 11, 2019
In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Short on time? Speak the customer’s language.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
JANUARY 16, 2019
in 2006 as my first PM job. Despite my initial concerns about working on ads, I found that AdWords was a spectacular team to work on, mainly because it had great people. You also need to work on minimizing your weaknesses. In my own personal case, I was naturally very strong on product sense and extremely weak on execution.
Pragmatic Marketing
JANUARY 29, 2009
Scrum, an Agile process framework, is one of the most highly-regarded ways of managing development projects faster, with better outcomes. The meetings – Scrum defines itself in terms of the levels of interaction required between team members. Small team, small time-box, simple (read: well-defined and agreed) list of things to do.
Business of Software Conference
MARCH 30, 2021
There was only one team member brave enough to take him on. He wasn’t doing a bad job at all, Kirk Baillie. So can I start with the most memorable in a bad way? So it was certainly quite a pivotal, pivotal point in the growth and development of the conference. Kirk Baillie. And they know that feeling. Kirk Baillie.
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