The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Regularly tie daily tasks to the broader vision to keep your team engaged and motivated.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. A great way to discover an effective product strategy is to capture your initial ideas, using a tool like my Product Vision Board , and then systematically correct and refine them. Figure 3 illustrates how this can be done.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Thats the dream scenario, he saidfinding a neglected asset, injecting the right leadership and dev resources, and watching it skyrocket.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now Last week’s guest post about tactics for becoming a “super IC” is on track to being my most popular post of all time, so I’m thrilled to bring you a follow-up that’s designed specifically for managers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 1, 2025

Dogfooding as a leadership practice: Sachin personally drives and delivers monthly (more than 700 trips total). Hybrid marketplace vision for autonomy: Uber divested its in-house AV unit and now partners with over 15 AV companies. This motto is the one he drills into his kids too.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2025

Influential Leadership. Influential Leadership Credibility without authority Drive alignment across complexity Story and trust The power to guide and align others without formal authority. Tech-fluent PMs bridge vision and feasibility by engaging deeply with engineers and navigating technical complexity. Strategic Foresight.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Courses | Hiring | Swag Subscribe now Annual subscribers get a free year of Perplexity Pro, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, and Granola , along with access to the entire 5-year back catalog and a thriving members-only Slack community. What exactly is product strategy?

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 15, 2025

After two decades leading product teams and coaching countless PMs, I've discovered something surprising: The issue isn't your strategic thinking abilities - it's navigating the unspoken rules that shape product leadership. Three competing executive visions. We try to conform to leadership styles that don't match our strengths.

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BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

A leadership team wants sharper focus. Leaders aren’t sure how to course-correct without disrupting delivery. Visibility isn’t just for leadership. It’s time to move from box-ticking to behaviour-shifting. Start small. Anchor to strategy. Measure what matters. Because OKRs only work when they’re lived — not just listed.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. Someone who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Of course, the latter are rarely product designers. On the other side, we have a party that advocates for a long-term, holistic, and systemic approachprioritizing user research, consistency, interconnectedness, and a broader product vision. Who holds the final saythe product manager, the tech lead, or senior leadership?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Send your team weekly summaries with verbatim quotes from leadership meetings plus your interpretation of why they said it. Your job isn’t to get your ideas implemented but to brilliantly operationalize the CEO’s vision. When you disagree with leadership decisions, go through the “What if I’m wrong?”

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

For more: Lenny’s Podcast | How I AI | Lennybot | Lenny’s Reads | Courses | Swag Subscribe now Annual subscribers now get a free year of Perplexity Pro, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, Granola, and more. ” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” Subscribe now. Understand what drives them.

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Gainsight

APRIL 16, 2025

Theres something that happens when you sit in a post-sale leadership seat long enough. That customer journey includes onboarding emails, help center articles, Academy courses, support tickets, in-app tooltips, CSM check-ins, community threads, and product updates. You start thinking in functions. In roadmaps. In metrics. Head to Pulse!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2025

Study with Exponent’s Software Engineering Interviews course. Study with Exponent’s System Design Interviews course. Study with Exponent’s Machine Learning Engineer Interviews course. Study with Exponent’s Data Science Interviews course. ” Know Discord inside and out.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A person without a formal leadership title. Candidates short profile Spencer has over 7 years of experience driving product vision , strategy, and execution in AI-powered and enterprise SaaS platforms. Skills AI/ML integration, product strategy, SaaS platforms, data analytics, cross-functional leadership, and agile execution.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Each area builds upon the others, creating a comprehensive framework for leadership through influence. Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership).

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

It will pay off, because you will be able to give form to your vision, and you will be able to build out a much stronger technical and product team as you grow. #2 In the absence of in-house leadership, find an objective technical consultant–someone who has a great track record of building scalable products.

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airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

 Forward progress is not about brute force or unwavering adherence to a single course. Instead, it’s about the artful combination of enduring values (the keel) and adaptive strategy (the sail), all guided by leadership (the rudder) that knows when and how to tack. It used to drive me crazy,” he admits.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That experience taught me a key lesson about influence: Leadership isn’t a one-person show—it’s a social process. The Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) framework from the Center for Creative Leadership is a game-changer for making an impact - no matter your role. Try this interactive exercise.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Of course, since I know that a more meaningful conversation is about problems and needs, I am aware of this tendency and force myself to change it, but it’s not always easy. That’s where the true value of product leadership lies-not just in listening but in leading. And, honestly, it’s natural-we all do this.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

That’s the kind of language the rest of the organisation understands best (unless, of course, you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by enlightened colleagues from stage 4 of the social tribe model)(2). One habit that always helps when I feel stuck: I take an online course that aligns with where I see my future heading.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Critically, bank leadership is on board — according to an Ernst & Young survey, “nearly every bank’s board now stamps ‘yes’ on generative AI” initiatives. institutions given their scale and technological leadership. Even regional and mid-sized banks have started deploying AI for automation and analytics.

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

You can, of course, take pictures of those and download them. There are high potential leadership development programs But if we look a little bit more deeply into the organization, let’s assume all those great high potential people become the future C suite people, who’s gonna move into those next higher level jobs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management. . Listen on the podcast channel of your choice The post From Vision to Impact: Innovate Like a Pro! Michelle Felice-Steele on Product Management Success appeared first on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The third row contains the most important information. Figure 2: A Product Mmgt Skills Model.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, with the structure described here, it’s possible to quantify and visualize these shifts over time, so that we can show where the problem is and discuss it with leadership. Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? Does it contribute to our current goals at all? Does it require a large effort?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management.. Listen on the podcast channel of your choice The post From Vision to Impact: Innovate Like a Pro! Michelle Felice-Steele on Product Management Success appeared first on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2021

Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash So many aspects in our lives are based on other people’s visions coming true. Going through history, visions which became reality changed our lives dramatically, and as technology progresses, this becomes more and more true. From my experience, there are four steps for turning a vision into reality.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. Using Customer Knowledge to Establish a Clear Vision and Priorities That Stick.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With our expert guests, Garrett Lang (PlateRate, Founder and President) and Amil Shah (RBC Capital Markets, Senior Product Manager) , we discussed strategies for balancing leadership pressures, navigating feature requests, and crafting a personal brand that opens doors to new opportunities.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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