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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” However, despite a strong, socially motivated purpose, TOMS struggled due to a lack of focus on business value and product differentiation.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S.

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. Product management under sales. When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

In smaller companies and startups, both need to have a clear and firm understanding of the product strategy. It’s common for Product Managers to transition to CEO in this way, because they’ve already been playing the role of leader.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

We all know that product managers sometimes think of themselves as “CEO of the Product,” but does that really prepare you to be CEO of a company? And not just any company, but one of the largest, highest-profile companies in the world?

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

In 2006 Netflix organised a $1,000,000 competition to improve its recommendations: the goal was to improve the predictions of how many stars a user would give to a particular movie. Moreover, it’s not only changes in these components that might affect you.