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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change. are unclear, please communicate with your clients and leadership.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. They reference the power of collaboration and don’t have self promotion on repeat.

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Product Managers: Learn How To Manage Your Product Leadership Team

Bain Public

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Future of Product Management by Richard Harrison

Mind the Product

This refers to the fear many large established companies are feeling as more and more new players and startups enter the markets to disrupt them. The role of the Chief Product Officer is different to that of a Chief Technology Officer or Chief Marketing Officer.

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User Personas, Buyer Personas, and the Missing Link in B2B

Product Management University

A buyer persona in the B2B space represents the type of person who will be buying your product, sometimes referred to as the economic buyer. Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). Executive leadership buyer personas need to know your product can impact the organization’s overall strategic goals.

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How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse

The Review by First Round

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team. Mike has a unique career as an engineering leader.

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SaaS growth in 2022: Why tracking competitive advantage will NOT yield marketing leadership

Usersnap

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. Make sense of your data.