Leading product strategy and execution
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Building software platforms and applications that customers love, and will recommend to their peers, takes extreme focus and hard work.
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Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Building software platforms and applications that customers love, and will recommend to their peers, takes extreme focus and hard work.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Guest post by Gabe Nelson Great leaders inspire. Great leaders don’t dominate a room, they motivate it.
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Lead on Purpose
JULY 27, 2020
Delivering a solid product that customers love requires an up-front knowledge of the market in which customers and potential customers operate. Understanding the problems they face, and solving those problems with a software solution, is the end goal.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 28, 2020
A successful leader leads by influence, not by wielding authority.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 11, 2020
During the last few weeks and months so much has changed for all of us. With the recent pandemic we’ve seen many things change that we heretofore took for granted, things we’d become so accustomed to were transformed within days.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 30, 2019
The most effective leaders know there’s only one thing they have complete control over: “the way in which I respond and react to another human.” They know their success depends on the unity and determination of their team members.
Lead on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Creating great products and building successful companies takes a tremendous amount of work, insatiable initiative and a penchant for perseverance. It requires thinking differently than others think, and even differently than you have thought in the past.
Lead on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
Guest post by James Scott People make companies successful. Without effective team formation, a business can’t succeed. Carefully choosing and assigning roles and tasks is a crucial element in business management.
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 15, 2019
Practical techniques for increasing team success Teamwork is a key factor when it comes to creating workplace success. No doubt individuals with incredible talent can accomplish great things on their own.
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 10, 2019
Guest post by Shyamal Parikh According to a research by Cisco, cloud data centers will process 94% of workloads by 2021. Businesses are changing the way they work.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 29, 2019
Establishing A Good (and Mutually Beneficial) Business Relationship With Your Employees From a leader’s point of view, there are three basic things that compose a functional relationship: Command, control, and communication.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 2, 2019
Recently companies have raised their focus on why customer success matters and how to delight increasingly demanding customers. At its core, creating happy customers requires happy employees—the front-line people who interact continually with customers.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 29, 2019
Guest post by Cayden Whitmond Now more than ever, the future of business is one shaped by fast-paced innovations to technology and the way that work is done.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 19, 2019
The goal of every company and product leader is to invent products (or services) that become recognized market leaders. Creating a new product category is icing on the cake, but also rare and extremely difficult.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 22, 2019
Leadership differs depending on the size of the group you’re leading. For most product managers, the people they lead work on different teams and the individuals they need to influence don’t report to them.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 7, 2019
It’s difficult (if not impossible) to quantify what it takes to develop a productive and successful product team. Every product is unique, and every company does things differently.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 29, 2019
Guest post by Fred Halstead Accountability can be thought of as a punitive word with an implied threat-as in “I’m going to hold you accountable.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 29, 2019
Leadership can be difficult to understand, to measure and to carry out, and too often the term ‘leader’ is used for someone who manages a group but doesn’t necessarily lead.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 28, 2019
Think about a product you use regularly. Why do you use it? Why do you love it? What keeps you coming back?
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 27, 2019
Guest post by Yvette Bethel Your interconnective infrastructure is the framework that facilitates interpersonal and other work relationships.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 21, 2019
We live in a great time where, in most of the world, you can invent a new product or service and—with the appropriate up-front work—earn money from the value it creates for customers. This is remarkable!
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
The word ‘habit’ generates different thoughts depending on your situation. For some it’s that thing they are addicted to. For others it brings to mind the things they’re not doing and invokes anxiety.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Guest post by Jesse Nieminen We’re living in an age where many industries are facing big changes. To thrive, or even survive, most companies need to find ways to innovate. Yet, most companies fail to do that.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
You have created the vision for your products; you’ve built trust among your teams; you’re working hard to motivate team members to do great things; and you’re working to develop your teams with insight and direction.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 29, 2019
As you progress on the journey of building great teams, you create the vision, build a strong foundation of trust and motivate your team to reach beyond what they thought they were capable of doing.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 14, 2019
You’ve nailed the vision, and built the foundation of trust, now you need to motivate your teams. The success of your product depends on the work they (engineering, UX/design, marketing, sales, etc.) do.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 7, 2019
Another key element of a successful product management organization is creating trust with your teams, the teams you work with to build your products.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 26, 2018
One of the key elements of a successful product management organization is creating the vision for your products—the ‘why’ that drives their purchase and the factors that make them successful in their markets.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Guest post by Rick Miller The widely-held belief that success is available to everyone, simply with focus and hard work is one among many positive messages regularly reinforced in our Western culture.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
For most organizations, individuals starting a new job have 90 days to prove themselves. What happens during this critical time can make or break your career. Your goal is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Guest post by Brett Farmiloe The two-year itch. You know what I’m talking about. It’s the feeling you get after being at a job for a couple of years.
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 20, 2018
Whether you are a small startup or an international corporation, HR management and organization presents an equally important matter. Choosing a proper team structure for your hierarchy and management isn’t as simple as it seems.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 16, 2018
Guest article by Glain Roberts-McCabe “She was completely whole and yet never fully complete” ?Maquita Donyel Irvin One day, I was having lunch with John, a successful CEO of a national retailer.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 16, 2018
Titles have a way of morphing over time. In some cases, they improve and become more popular. At times, because of the acts of certain, often high-profile, individuals, titles can lose value.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 4, 2018
We live in a fast-paced world where technology changes our lives daily. For some it’s invigorating. For others it’s intimidating if not terrifying.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 26, 2018
Guest post by John Izzo, PhD and Jeff Vanderwielen PhD Today’s product managers wear many hats and are required to be motivators, counsellors, mentors, and enforcers.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 19, 2018
Business owners and entrepreneurs are often asked this leader vs. manager question regarding their management style. For many, these two words are synonymous; both are important for motivating people to work towards a common goal.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 6, 2018
The most successful companies have motivated leaders that inspire motivation at all levels of the organization. They are motivated for a real purpose, not just for money or other short-term rewards.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Guest post by Jenn Clark A survey revealed that out of 180 business leaders, four out of 10 do not get enough sleep at least four nights a week.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
When you think about the leaders you respect and admire, you see qualities that make them great. This can be inspiring or disheartening, depending on your current state of mind.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 29, 2018
Success depends as much on the desire of an individual as anything else. Hard work, persistence and intelligence also factor in, and depending on the endeavor, these may play a big role.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 22, 2018
A key focus of this blog—from its beginning—has been purpose. Leading on purpose, working with purpose; doing things intentionally, doing things for the right reason. Though topics have led in various directions, the core focus has been purpose.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 15, 2018
Guest post by Jennifer Birch In business, being a leader doesn’t just fill a job title.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Successful business leaders thrive on competition. They’re at their best when contending for the top customers in high-end markets. They may feel that if they’re not in the middle of a cut-throat battle with competitors, they must not be succeeding.
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