Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Servant leadership is a mainstay of corporate cultures worldwide. Like most leadership phenomena, it evokes both passionate adoration and scoffing. What is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a management philosophy in which the primary goal of the leader is to serve their direct reports. ” – Robert K.

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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.

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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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. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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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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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? Look around at your own company and in your PM team, how many women do you see (let alone any minorities) in leadership roles? Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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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. Present your initiatives during team meetings?—?this

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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. Seek expert guidance from consultants or technology providers. This allows them to seize opportunities and navigate challenges more effectively.

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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. When you ask permission by saying something like, ‘Can I give you some feedback about your presentation?’

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management.

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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. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. “Upmarket customers have different demands of you. . Moving upmarket.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. This sometimes can happen unknowingly, for example when product managers always take on the role of presenting to executives, leading meetings, giving demos, or announcing results. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Conclusion.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

The most successful businesses realize this and work hard to continually protect their strategic position. Hamilton published this work in 2016 after a career of working with over 200 clients as a strategy consultant, including Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe. Counter-positioning. Switching costs.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

Performs scenario-based competitive analysis (not a competitive feature matrix) that identifies customer circumstances in which your product is superior/inferior to the competition and the subsequent value narrative that should accompany marketing/sales positioning and future product plans. Positive, “glass-is-always half-full” attitude.

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Product Management University

JUNE 20, 2017

There are seven legs in the race for market leadership. The marketing and sales enablement function has three goals: Create a corporate résumé (positioning) that communicates your strategic value to the market in the customers’ vocabulary. Do it early in the sales process and your presentations and demos will flat out “nail it.”.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

You may not be presenting product plans across the company, but you’ll be responsible for keeping your peers and manager updated. This mid-level product role is like the associate-level product manager position. You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., Product Manager.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

These are just a few of the questions that Melissa Perri, a product consultant and the author of Escaping the Build Trap , discusses in her presentation she delivered at the Product Drive Summit powered by Userpilot a few weeks ago. The vision is owned by the CEO and the Senior Leadership. How do teams fall into it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2020

But soon afterward, businesses will need to act on broader resilience plans as the shock begins to upturn established industry structures, resetting competitive positions forever.”. We asked Mark Weidick, the general manager of legal ops platform SimpleLegal , what he thought was most important about leadership during a crisis.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They spoke on the topic of leadership, and unsurprisingly it was a fascinating and enlightening discussion, with a lot of great insights gleaned from their respective careers. But how can we use our position to empower co-workers and create a more inclusive, diverse, and engaging experience for everyone? Leadership journey.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We had so much positive feedback after World Product Day that we asked Liam to present his talk again so we could live-stream it to ProductTanks in Sydney and Melbourne. Align Design Strategy With Leadership Ambitions. You can watch the video here: Takeaways From the Talk. I see companies struggle with this topic all the time.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the research is narrow-scoped, there is a higher risk of missed opportunities, blind spots, and false positives. Choose the few top metrics where positive movement could have the most impact. Concept Ranking: Present users with mock-ups or descriptions of different potential new features and gauge their reactions.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 23, 2021

As this was a Summit presentation, the format of the show notes below are a bit different. Steve has been working within the high-technology arena since 1981 with experience in technical, sales, and marketing management positions at companies specializing in enterprise and desktop software. Useful links: Under 10 Consulting.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. When speaking to students at the University of California, she said; “How do you present an idea? While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true.

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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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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

This internal meeting encourages host company attendees to arrive on time and is the final opportunity to review session content, facilitation plans and any other meeting notes before presenting to the members. As such, it is essential that the meeting present ample opportunities for peer networking and social interaction.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

You may not be presenting product plans across the company, but you’ll be responsible for keeping your peers and manager updated. This mid-level product role is like the associate-level product manager position. You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., Product Manager.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. Major Takeaways: You can’t help others if you’re not in a position to help yourself. No One Cares About Your Go-Live presented by Jonathan Corrie, CEO at Precursive.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

So we’re often in a position where Sales/Solutions sees Product/Development as inattentive, incompetent, and unconcerned about what buyers really need.  From Product dutifully presents ever-more-detailed roadmaps and plans, quarterly and then monthly and then weekly and then links to the live documents.  (e.g.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

I strongly believe that human skills like those listed above are meta skills that are just as essential to product management and leadership as more traditional skills like strategy development, data analytics, roadmap development, etc. Try taking notes and asking questions to show you’re present and engaged.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

You would think that someone holding this position would be leading innovation teams or startups, but the problem lies in companies justifying the investment for the role. In larger companies, PA Consulting found innovation failures cost companies about £65 billion each year in the UK alone. Speed to Market.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

We also talk about the journey and importance of Women in Tech supporting gender diversity and leadership in the tech industry. Especially leadership and women in leadership? We are starting to see more women represented in jobs in tech jobs and in design leadership. That’s amazing. Marilia: Yes.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

They need to have technical/processual skills as well as those lauded, but ever elusive, leadership skills. The Trends and Benchmarks in Product Management Report states that most PMs are only 3–5 years in their present positions even if they have around 10–20 years work experience.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I keep encountering managers and consultants who want to make work “fun” for people. Before I was a consultant, I held various Director-level positions at local companies. Get each other presents for Christmas. Find presents in the $5 range for someone I didn't know. ” I declined. What did I do?

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

But in a recent webinar, Chris Battles, Chief Product Officer at Zuora, presented him with a view and definition of Product rarely heard. He started in investment banking and later found himself in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It’s a classic story of what management consultants do,” Chris said. “I

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

Craigslist: Ideal for Connecting with a Broad, General Audience (With a Few Caveats) Ellen Juhlin , a product coach, consultant, and Product Talk Academy instructor , was working on a wearable voice communication device in a previous role. Overall, Ellen had a positive experience with UserInterviews.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Each day has its own theme and presentations. Day 1: 30+ forward-thinking presentations, Day 2: 10 expert-led discussion sessions by true industry leaders, Day 3: 3+ hours of recruitment matchmaking. Price: Free-access to only the live Rendezvous presentations. for access to all the post-event recordings + slides, £299.00

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