Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2022

The managers, because they are in a terrible position. Here's how I see these possible decisions through congruence: When senior management allocates insufficient money for raises, they blame everyone else for their (management's) decisions. And most of the managers I know value “fairness” in how they deal with people.

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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. How to signal interest in a Director role . Let’s dig in!

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. So how can an organization increase its odds of success? What Is Product Management Consulting? What Do Successful Product Management Consulting Firms Have in Common?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. I specifically remember that I consulted with another marketing teacher there about what should my next career steps be, and he suggested “That I should try this thing called product management”. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool. Photo by Jessica Lewis ?

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

How, you ask? As a product management consultant, he acts as a coach and a mentor to his clients, providing them with frameworks that guide them toward making the best product decisions. Different from a board member, a product management consultant does not instruct a CEO and the product leadership team how to run the company.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this article, we'll break down the key things you need to look for in an executive coach and how to find one. The Different Types of Coaching Before we jump into how to find a coach, let's discuss the main types of coaches that exist and which options are available. Leadership Development. Consulting.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. make sure your customers understand who your REAL competition is. Upcoming Events.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in. The Associate Product Manager position is an entry-level role responsible for smaller projects and supporting more senior colleagues.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 13, 2023

How product managers can prepare for a product leadership role Today we are talking about how you can prepare for and find a senior product leadership role, and we’ll be addressing this both for current senior leaders as well as for product managers. There’s no harm looking.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

How 6 seasoned managers tackle the biggest challenges of teamwork. In Leadership. We’ll include an example of each here, because they offer a powerful illustration of how these behaviors may look in the workplace. Example from team lead to team: “Am I missing the mark with how to proceed? Related Article.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. As a PM you need to understand functionally how everything works. So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

I tried the positive angle (“I see you are not happy, so tell me what you want and we’ll figure it out”), but the answers I got were nothing I could work with (“I want to work alone and for no one to ask questions about what I’m doing”). How big is the gap? True to my belief that I can coach him, I invested everything I could in it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms”, Disney Legend Harrison “Buzz” Price described what it was like to follow Walt’s leadership in building the dream that became Disneyland. This should resonate with anyone in a product role because it refocuses a “No” into a positive but realistic approach. And that’s okay.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 4, 2020

Applicants for positions at Amazon can expect to be asked a set of questions commonly referred to as behavioral interview questions. Well, you may have already guessed, but they're the questions focused on gleaning info on your past behavior and performance in earlier positions. What's an example of a time that a project failed?

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves.

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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. In most cases, you have never been in this position yourself before, so interviewing could be a challenge. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. The earlier you learn how to prioritize properly, the more effective you’ll be throughout your career. Get the right people on – and off – the bus.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Bring empathy to the client's pressures and position. ” Whenever I've been in that position, my mind immediately went to, “how many months of mortgage payment (or insert a large monetary outlay here) do I have available?” Focus on business results, not agility per se. Let's start with the levels. Most cannot.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

They can present narratives to leadership about the company’s current, past and future needs. One of the critical responsibilities of a BizOps and Strategy position is to put out fires. This is different than a consultant who may suggest solutions for big or small problems and then leave.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Applying the quadrants to develop your career Here’s how to use these quadrants to determine where you currently sit, where you want to be and how to get there. Consulting firms and large companies are where this quadrant can thrive. But does he spend his training time practising improving his defensive positioning or tackling?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2019

Following a talk at ProductTank Bristol, he joined us to chat about the advice he gives both to aspiring product managers and to those angling for leadership positions. How to communicate with people at all levels. Links mentioned in this episode: Six leadership styles, from the Harvard Business Review. Your Hosts.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Val has experience in a number of different sectors, having started out as a stage manager for operas before moving onto life as a virtual assistant and eventually setting up her own consultancy firm, Fix My Churn. One did consulting, one had a T-shirt company, one had an imported goods company. This is a virtual assistant.”

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 5, 2024

After these conversations, our leadership will find the most suitable person for the position who will help the internal team. When this happens, organizations need professionals to fill in someone else’s position quickly. They contacted us to consult on their situation and find a solution whether and how we can help them.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jimena Almendares has held senior product roles and leadership positions at Zynga and Meetup , and now runs the Global Expansion efforts for Intuit. How to observe patterns in data. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

There’s an increased level of complexity as you start dealing with enterprise companies, and you need to mature your positioning and playbooks to meet more demanding customer expectations. Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Alyssa Dver is here to deliver some insights in how to achieve that confidence. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

He started in investment banking and later found himself in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It was there that he was not only exposed to a new business strategy but also how different parts of an organization have to interconnect to come to life. . Chris’s path to CPO began unconventionally.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Future-proofing your business Embracing digital transformation is not just about keeping up with the present; it’s about positioning your business for the future. For the first time, it would dawn on you how to do come up with successful digital transformation strategies step by step. Assessment This is the foundation.

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Atlassian

MARCH 31, 2022

In Leadership. Constructive criticism means providing a critique of someone’s performance by acknowledging both the positive and negative aspects of their work, along with the appropriate steps to improve. How to give constructive criticism more effectively in the workplace. By Patricia Omoqui. What is constructive criticism?

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Product Momentum is an ITX podcast intended to entertain, educate, celebrate, and give a little back to the product leadership community. He acquired the breadth of experience to find common denominators to make businesses successful through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

It might have implications for how that product is positioned in the market. How to make good user stories. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. It might have implications for how that product is positioned in the market.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. Product leadership deals with so many unknowns, that the absolute truth is not reachable in most cases.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 25, 2022

UXDX brings together various world-class speakers and partners who will share their learnings and successes, as well as how to overcome challenges. Many CEOs will tell you that they’re the best-informed people when it comes to knowing what customers need — and that they’re in the best position to drive decisions on product priorities.

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