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How To Manage People Who Are More Experienced Than You Are

The Product Coalition

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. And are they even needed?

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons. We've got your covered.

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4 Key Takeaways of Building a Product Team

The Product Coalition

Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. Not every mentor needs to be the same, and they shouldn’t be, they just need to be people you admire for who they are and what they do professionally.

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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read

Hutwork

You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. He also was the CEO of his own Android startup, Cover which has now been acquired by Twitter. Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). That was my first introduction to the continuous discovery framework. What happened next?

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An OKR Fable

Product Bookshelf

The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea.