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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control. A PM who creates unnecessary friction or fails to collaborate constructively isn’t fulfilling their responsibilities and shouldn’t remain in the role—just as with any other position.

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From Stacking Features to Shaping Value: A New Product Building Model

UX Planet

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash For decades, software development has mirrored the construction industry — a manpower-heavy model where effort, hierarchy, and sequencing define how value is created. Building software like a Construction Project The traditional process of building software is eerily similar to a construction site.

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Leading with Fear, Vision, and Taste: Our lessons from the Mind the Product Leadership Forum

Mind the Product

During the day, we were joined by great speakers and engaged in some constructive roundtable discussions. Read on for Read more » The post Leading with Fear, Vision, and Taste: Our lessons from the Mind the Product Leadership Forum appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)

Lenny Rachitsky

Great product leadership requires three key elements: The ability to see around corners and anticipate what’s coming Infectious enthusiasm and genuine care about the product Getting the team to deeply care about what they’re building Disagreeing with someone might seem confrontational, but it builds trust when done constructively.

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Design and Run Experiments That Actually Progress Your Business

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

That said, it's often quite tricky to take your vision and figure out the first experiment to run. You'll also learn a few tips and tricks for making experimentation a constructive habit for you and your team. How do you get started? How can you ensure your experiments are well-designed?

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Why UX Design Strategy is Crucial for Business Success

UX Planet

Contrasting UX Strategy with General UXDesign While general UX design centers on the tangible aspects of a productits visual appeal, functionality, and overall feelit involves brainstorming details like color schemes, constructing wireframes, and building prototypes. It focuses on execution: how to bring these elements tolife.

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ONE THING on Bad Ideas On Purpose

Product Culture

Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up While the idea may seem silly, it establishes clear decision criteria and sets an example of constructive ways to evaluate ideas. A brand new talk for CEOs at the Business of Software conference in Raleigh, October 6-8: Evolving Clear Strategy from Emerging Vision. What techniques do you use?

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The Art and Science of Explaining Your Product Strategy

Speaker: Jason Tanner, CEO of Applied Frameworks

Join Jason Tanner, CEO of Applied Frameworks, as he reviews a range of frameworks and practices to construct a clear, compelling product strategy connected to the business model for the product. Product leaders can project confidence and competence through practical, convincing articulation of product strategy.