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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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Working Remotely as a Product Manager: It’s about trust.

Product Management Unpacked

According to a Gartner report “How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs Refreshed 14 May 2019, Published 16 January 2018,” three of the four key challenges are: Mutual lack of trust undermines good remote work intentions. Showing support for your team members, even when they make mistakes. That builds confidence.

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What does psychological safety mean, anyway?

Atlassian

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. In Leadership. 5-Second summary.

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Insights from the #mtpcon Product Leadership Forum – Part 3

Mind the Product

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. I’ll sound stupid if I ask questions”.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Product vs Project Management?—?Batman & Robin or Marvel & DC?

The Product Coalition

when searching for a new role back in April 2019, 35% of the results for my search for ‘Senior Product Manager’ in London were project manager roles. The stages of product development Using six questions we can determine the primary role of both product and project managers concerning product development. The 5 Why’s and How?—?often

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The 4 most recent product design books every designer should read

Imaginary Cloud - Design

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Why is that?

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