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Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

Lenny Rachitsky

Simplify security Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, coach, and advisor. Through her course and one-on-one coaching, she’s helped thousands of operators, founders, and product leaders master the art of influence through clear, compelling communication.

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Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

Product Talk

At the beginning, I was an intern UI designer and she was a senior UX, and she mentored me. Claire continues, “For the first time, we really only communicated in the Slack feature channels, without any direct messages. When we started the trio, we had been working together for two or three years.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Your messages are not specific enough. Using the Opportunity Solution Tree to Guide Discovery The visual at the center of this is called an opportunity solution tree.

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

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. It’s like, “Hey, you have to mentor a number of folks coming up.”

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan. Or have seniors on your team formally assigned to mentor the novices. We develop good product reflexes.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? How are those mass messages crafted? Send messages?