People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. Share People-First Product Leadership Discover the methods for turning awkwardness into opportunities and transform your career All of us are faced with difficult situations. Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership!

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team. Mike has a unique career as an engineering leader.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. He is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. Book a free consult today. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. This book inspired me to choose industrial engineering studies. Both books are highly recommended).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

With a strong UX background and a host of amazing books behind him, Scott Berkun comes to BoS Conf Online.Spring with an interactive session aimed at helping you identify the design principles of your product your users may find difficult to navigate. Coming up at BoS Conf Online.Spring, Scott Berkun talks how easy is your product to use?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 3, 2020

He’s also been a software engineer, a serial CTO, and the Chief Product Officer at Hubspot, giving him a unique lens into company building and leadership at different levels. It’s a must-listen for current founders and CEOs, and anyone looking to level up their leadership skills.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Here are a few recommendations, based on my professional experience as well as my research for a forthcoming book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the first edition of Marty Cagan’s book ‘Inspired’, he said that for a product to succeed it must be valuable, usable, and feasible. If it took Marty almost 10 years to address this important aspect of product leadership, no wonder many product leaders don’t understand that this is part of their role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. We want to provide you with a set of resources and tools you can use to supercharge your business and get to where you want to be.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Scott Berkun explains more in his excellent book, How Design Makes the World … “This complexity would be the cathedral’s undoing. “We like to think that, here in the present day, with almost nine hundred years of technological progress from the time the Notre-Dame cathedral was designed, failures like this would be impossible.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce’s latest best seller, Product Roadmapping Relaunched is one of our top recommended books for every product leader. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. whether or not we should do something.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an and during?—?the the search process. Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The concept of product positioning sent product marketing expert, April Dunford, on a career-long quest she captured in her book, “Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning, so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It.” Listening to the voice of the customer can come in various forms.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

A great CEO has the confidence and humility to ask for help, to rely on outside experts and to surround herself or himself with people that excel in other fields, such as product leadership. At Bain Public, we can help fast-track the development of your product management and leadership. Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Chesbrough wrote his Open Innovation book in 2003. create a path to executive leadership. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) Henry Chesbrough, father of open innovation, shares how open innovation has evolved. 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

Read books and media publications My favorite book is “Inspired?—?how Keep everyone united As Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora said in an interview : “Force yourselves to get everyone on the same page about what’s important for the business right now.” how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. 20 How I Read More Books. The data backs it up. Author: Marty Cagan.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. You could get on a boat like in the Patrick Lencioni book and go in the middle of a lake until you all agree or something like that, but that group of people needs to come together somehow. Now, how do you do that?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

If I listed books, we’d be here forever.) The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. What starts off as your run-of-the-mill motivational speech about leadership, morphs into a riveting talk about hidden expectations of leaders. For this list, I stuck to online posts strictly. (If Author: Simon Sinek.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And so this set of data right here, I pulled from this amazing book called The Challenger Sale, which did it did a great big long to go in depth research study of what makes a good salesperson effective. Am I email, or am I chat?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers. In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. Consider it the price of leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. Fix it he did.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. It was structured such that there was an overarching set of KPIs agreed upon at the leadership level. I tried to give a lot of autonomy to the product, tech, and design teams.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. of respondents said that their Head of Product (e.g. said their team was involved.

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