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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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You’re Not a Manager of Multiple Teams, You’re a Leader: Tips for Leading Multiple Teams

The Product Coalition

If you don’t approach multi-team leadership as its own beast, everyone is going to suffer. If you have product managers, lean on them. Things I’ve seen: Sometimes the division of responsibility between project managers, product managers and business analysts isn’t clear; call it The Three-Headed Responsibility Monster.

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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

In the world of product management, where technical acumen, strategic vision, and people skills intersect, there’s an often underutilized asset that many PMs overlook: the power of networking. Plus, don’t forget to download the free guide, 10 Tips for Being a Better Product Manager , at the end of this post!

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Where the Best Ideas Come From

The Product Coalition

Alpha surveyed over 500 product leaders from large organizations and startups for its 2020 Product Management Insights Report. Surprisingly, ideas from leadership ranked near the bottom at 13%. There wasn’t much value found in crowdsourcing either, which has become more popular in recent years.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

We write a lot about the skills that product managers need to be effective. But what are the most under-appreciated product management skills? But what are the most under-appreciated product management skills? To answer that question, we asked several product managers for their thoughts. Crowdsourced Picks.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the Lean Canvas is one tool I recommend to help product managers think through the business model while crafting new product concepts. How product managers can create new ideas.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1) Product managers need others to create products and this means having influence, which starts with relationships. 2) Curiosity.