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TEI 305: Become a product naming champ – with Alexandra Watkins

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can create product names that make people smile. Not many product managers get involved in naming products, and that is a mistake. You can be a great brainstorming resource to help Marketing or a naming consulting. . You can be a great brainstorming resource to help Marketing or a naming consulting. .

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

He co-authored Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement and authored The OKRs Field Book. Ben shared that the landscape of OKR implementation changed after 2018, when John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters sparked widespread interest in the framework. You can find the others in his book.

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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

2] What Gives Conflict a Bad Name Sadly, conflict is often poorly handled, especially at work. As Oren Jay Sofer writes in his book Say What You Mean , “The less blame and criticism are in our words, the easier it will be for others to hear us and to work toward a solution.” Avoid criticism, judgment, or blame. 5] Bruce Patton et al.

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What I Wish I Knew Before Writing a Book

Melissa Perri

Since publishing my second book, Product Operations, in October, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned writing two business books and wanted to share those insights that I wish someone had shared with me before I started. They brushed it off, saying, "Look, the world's got enough books on that topic." That was back in 2016.

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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. Today I want to give you a sneak peek into this understanding, by talking about common misinterpretations of the name PLG, which could lead you to wrong expectations as to what you are entering yourself into.

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TEI 338: Better OKRs, with the person who wrote the original OKR book – with Christina Wodtke

Product Innovation Educators

We need an OKR expert to learn more about this, and joining us is the woman who wrote the bestselling book, Radical Focus , that tackles the use of OKRs and startup culture with an eye to getting the right things done. Also, if you’ve tried OKRs and didn’t like them, this discussion will help you too.

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The Innovation Ambition Matrix

Roman Pichler

Apple, for instance, disrupted the mobile phone market with the original iPhone; Nintendo did the same in the games console market with its Wii; and Amazon disrupted the retail book market with its online store. [3] An incubator is a new, temporary business unit that is loosely coupled to the rest of the organisation.