Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

They might have worked longer for the company, and they might be very influential and well connected. Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

They might have worked longer for the company, and they might be very influential and well connected. Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

But you can’t really succeed this way, at least not the way your company needs you to. Companies need this function in order to thrive. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2024

In this article, Dave Martin, Product Leadership Coach and Co-Founder of Right to Left, shares his take on the state of product management in wake of bold claims made by Marty Cagan in his latest book, Transformed.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. What’s the right way to do this in your company? In most companies, you can get a passing performance score by being well-loved.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? This comprehensive guide empowers you to harness the power of digital transformation strategies, propelling your business toward a thriving future. What are digital transformation strategies?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But, people's real job is to make their company win, meaning that they have to sub-optimize their own goals to optimize the whole system. Think about it; sometimes you need to not excel in your job to make your whole company win. So why should we care about the whole company winning above our own OKR’s and KPI’s??—?Well,

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?”

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. The business strategy provides the company with the basis for making the right investment decisions. How will you win?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream. And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As one of the leaders in a company, the buck stops with you. The post The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help appeared first on Mind the Product. And while this is generally thrilling and also what you signed up for, it can occasionally be the source of headaches as well.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the past few jobs I’ve had (and excluding the time I started my own company), I’ve gotten in the habit of asking one question right off the bat. (OK, You see, whenever I would join a new company, I would spend much of my time meeting with engineering, sales, product management, and design marketing leaders and support.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. I temporarily relocated there with 2 more developers from my company. But for your own company to do well until then, here are a few things you must excel in. You need to have a product strategy. There are many ways to crisp up your strategy.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A friend (let’s call her Sarah) leads product for a SaaS company that has traditionally sold to smaller businesses. Their growth strategy calls for them to move into the enterprise space where deal sizes are larger and more profitable. Sarah’s company is taking this downside risk because of the upside potential of this pivot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. One of the things I said there is that strategy starts with the goals. One of the things I said there is that strategy starts with the goals. I’ll start with the former.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product managers step in later and they are in charge of implementing the strategy and building the product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Today I want to talk about the blind spots that hiring companies have since they are at least as important for the ability to hire and succeed with the person that will help your company fly. Hiring a product leader is never easy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2020

These are all key components of a business resilience strategy, one that bolsters up a business that’s faced with challenges and sets it up for growth long-term. We spoke to leaders at companies such as Lattice, Yotpo, and Frontify to get their take. In March, McKinsey & Co. Make decisions quickly.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. Product Marketer: Develops and executes marketing strategy that promotes the product’s value proposition and drives customer interest and adoption. What’s a go-to-market strategy? Who is part of the GTM team?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. They understand in the absence of learning, companies are doomed to repeat old practices. Companies, like people, evolve over time. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Dear Strategy

APRIL 28, 2024

On this episode of Dear Strategy, Bob expands upon his 2 golden rules of small business success, starting with Rule #1. If you’re interested in strategy training or coaching for your business, please visit us at Strategy Generation Company.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket. ” 2. .

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Nulab

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Traditional top-down managerial structures for leadership are being replaced with bottom-up styles of working. Organizations need to be dynamic if they want to attract and retain the best workers — and collaborative leadership is one way to do that. What is collaborative leadership? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

With that in mind, I’m pulling back the curtain with a practical look at how to analyze your organization’s readiness, identify your priorities, and create an action plan to guide your company through the complexities of AI adoption. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. Growing others, strategy, air cover? What should my focus be?

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Executives across industries are reimagining leadership principles that thrive in an agile business environment — principles that don’t treat change as an anomaly but a culture. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership. Here are five agile leadership principles that have served us well: 1.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Does your team (or organization) have a shared Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Goals? Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. Now you’re ready to tackle the product strategy. ” You have your product strategy statements.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Subscribe now What’s in a Strategy?

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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 differences lie in the company expectations? Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?,

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