The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. COVID is gone, and despite the initial hype, the resulting economic slowdown is here to stay. It always helps.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Fortunately, there is a cornucopia of stellar books perfect for product managers who want to learn everything from user-centric design principles to advancing their career. This book is a distillation of these efforts.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? So read on for a quick summary of each book, who the author is, and key points, so you can pick a book for your next beach day. Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush is the ultimate book on how to implement product-led growth and build winning products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. For startups, this can be the end. We are a startup, after all.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. What makes startups fail or succeed in their mission?”, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. Who am I building for?, and so on.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. This is about established businesses.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

In our conversation today, we focus on how founders build an environment that makes early employees want to stay, and importantly, how leaders can build the career skills and self-awareness they need to succeed at a startup long-term. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.].

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. His book, The Thick of It and W1A shows.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap. Quotes of the Episode. This place is a mess.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Why are Product Management Books important ? The next best thing is to pick up a book. Whatever your level of PM experience, there’s a lot to be said for picking up a good book. Cracking the PM Interview has become the #1 interview prep book for aspiring product managers.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Fortunately for us, Tim not only owns up to his mistakes, he’s written a book to help the rest of us avoid making the same ones. Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now!

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

She’s spent her eight years in Product working for a variety of digital companies – from startups to publicly listed multinationals. Georgie adds: “We’re not a bank that is run on our loan book. The post Georgie Smallwood on Product Culture, Leadership and Fintech appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you. But on the other hand, they need you there, and if you give too much weight to their leadership you can’t become their partner. That’s not the leadership team that they need. That’s what real leadership looks like.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

He has numerous articles published about his insights and his recent book he co-authored is Corporate Explorer Fieldbook: How to Build New Ventures in Established Companies. Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Especially with startups, by the way, which Marty mentioned to be “ so easily distracted ”. Quite a few weeks have passed since I attended SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ session.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “product-market fit” that is the manna from heaven to a modern corp.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission.

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Bain Public

JUNE 14, 2021

(Montréal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public joins Cédric Tawil, Director at Startup Grind Montreal , in a fireside chat discussing what the future of product management holds and how businesses can prepare for it. This fireside event is hosted by Cédric Tawil from Startup Grind Montreal.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Bain Public

JULY 22, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will lead a workshop on July 22nd in collaboration with Forum Ventures , formerly known as Acceleprise -- an early-stage fund and B2B SaaS startup accelerator! This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. By taking on more responsibilities, I need to demonstrate leadership and gain the confidence and trust of my stakeholders. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Find out more about Jeffrey and Squirrel’s book, podcast and work at Conversational Transformation. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2021

These online workshops will host startup founders from the Toronto, New York, and San Francisco cohorts! We offer a variety of blog posts, e-books and approaches designed to help organizations understand their digital strategies, introduce elements of roadmapping and establish product-led change amongst the senior leaders and managers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

He’s the author of two of the most foundational books for product teams and product leaders ( Inspired and Empowered ), he’s the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (one of the longest-running product advisory groups), and he’s almost certainly worked with more product leaders and teams than any human alive.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. Links mentioned in this episode: Interested in the book Bruce co-wrote, Product Roadmaps Relaunched ? Quote of the Episode. OKRs v roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

It has been a while since the term Product Leadership has gained widespread adoption in blogs, articles and even books. It represents the intersection between Product Management and Leadership; which, in my point of view, have a lot to do with each other. PS: Doesn’t it sound a lot like leadership? #3

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Building a value-driven mindset will put you on a successful path as a Product Manager. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

UX consultant and strategist David Farkas talks us through how he’s helped teams to better collaborate, communicate, and work together by introducing some of the activities and philosophies to his teams – something he covers in depth in his book, Collaborative Improv – Building Better Products Through Improvisation.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Mike’s book, Cracking The Data Code. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Mike’s Website.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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