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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ Instead, it must be earned.

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5 Great Career Paths for Sales Engineers & Solution Consultants

Product Management University

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same? Provide routine feedback to product management on market needs.

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474: Emotionally fit leadership for product managers – with Dr. Emily Anhalt

Product Innovation Educators

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership. ” There’s no shame in that.

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Encourage Management Collaboration to Integrate Leading and Serving Others

Johanna Rothman

I said in the Modern Management books that managers lead and serve the team (at all levels). That's when the organization creates “people” managers. The people managers serve the team by creating a trusting relationship with each person on the team. How can these people managers support all those people?

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A Day in the Life of a Product Management Consultant

Bain Public

Is something broken in your team’s product management? 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. If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place. How, you ask?

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Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money

Johanna Rothman

Tim didn't have much time to manage paying people by value at their various levels. Engineering management, including the directors and first-level managers, knew about the salary problem. Tim's management used power-over, not power-with to decide. The managers, because they are in a terrible position.

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The Product Leadership Career Ladder

Mironov Consulting

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. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.