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Hey Product Management, Strategic Direction is Yours for the Taking. Here’s How!

Product Management University

It doesn’t matter whether you segment vertically (retail, healthcare, banking, etc.) Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Strong leadership and influence from product management starts with superior market knowledge. It means understanding the market, period. That’s right. Consider It!

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

Product Management Unpacked

The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management. I call this type of trust-building process in relationships a “trust bank account.” How do you build trust in the workplace?

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Cultivating a Product Mindset: How “No” became “YES, if…” became “Yes, IF…”

The Product Coalition

My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms”, Disney Legend Harrison “Buzz” Price described what it was like to follow Walt’s leadership in building the dream that became Disneyland. This should resonate with anyone in a product role because it refocuses a “No” into a positive but realistic approach. And that’s okay.

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Becoming a Product Leader: Leading Product Success in the First 100 Days

Product Management Unpacked

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. Build your trust bank account with small victories: Build alliances and make deposits in your “trust bank account,” where your small victories will contribute to the stability of your relationships. This is often called a “trust bank account.”

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When your product is your product team

Product Management Unpacked

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Unlike his previous positions where he led the creation of many tax, HR and accounting products — all subjects where he had little knowledge of the field — Pendo’s product is very much within his core expertise. The burden of bias.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random. This has helped me to progress in my positions in any context.”

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Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes

Product Talk

By the time you see revenue (or a lack of it)—whether it’s in a dashboard, cash in the bank, or a cancellation notice from a churned customer—it’s too late to take corrective action. As the product changes, the customer behavior changes should positively contribute to a company’s desired business outcome. Tweet This.