Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” To do this, the team must align on the definition of success for the acquisition. To define what needs to be repaired, improved, or created, the product manager needs to know what the definition of success could be.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery. Someone who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence senior leadership through data-driven insights. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, I would argue that designers are often in a less favourable position, as they typically lack both the final decision-making power (like managers) and the responsibility for implementing the agreed-upon solution (like engineers). Who holds the final saythe product manager, the tech lead, or senior leadership?

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Productside

APRIL 30, 2025

But the definition of what makes a great product manager? But as Tom pointed out, real leadership starts when you ask: What outcome is this drivingfor our business and our customers? Invest in your positioning. Lets set the record straight. Your product management career isnt dead. Neither is product management.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

In the absence of in-house leadership, find an objective technical consultant–someone who has a great track record of building scalable products. If you do move forward with a 100% outsourced team, make sure you have a strong, committed technical leader to oversee development and make key architectural decisions.

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Business Acumen Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While the definition may seem simple, there are several building blocks that need to be assembled to form the required foundation, and to build the structure of integrative thinking that will lead a deeper understanding of what’s needed help the company exceed its goals. Projects are a part of all jobs, and this skillset should be developed.

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Business Acumen Institute

APRIL 2, 2024

To create a path to a successful future in management or leadership, you need to develop your business acumen. I love business. To address these issues, and more, people who aspire to roles in upper management or leadership, or those who want to be more effective in their jobs, business acumen is needed. But what is business acumen?

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. So here’s basic definition, I will read it to you.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

However, when comparing all potential destinations, one country consistently emerges as the definitive leader: India. While several regions have emerged as viable options, India continues to maintain distinctive advantages that solidify its position as the premier choice for US businesses.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. We often hear about this transition from members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community who are new to leadership roles and either write in with questions or step in to share their experiences. The list got pretty long quickly—like 20 issues,” says Trevor.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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. I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing. It was a very intimidating moment. How do we fix it?”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But product management at the lower levels is still an individual sport, while product leadership at the highest levels is a team sport. They learned how to play the team sport called product leadership. The definition of a product strategy is not the strategy of the product department. Are you ready to make the shift?

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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. You might even be in a position to influence and shape “the finance department of the future.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

Our guest, Kenton Hansen, was in that position at Roll20 three years ago. 1:34] What was going on at Roll20 that cased leadership to hire their first product person? It was a time of targeted growth, and leadership was excited about growing the platform. I treated the position as a consultancy role.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. 2] Use the Right Goals A team is, by definition, a group of individuals who work together on the same goal. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. But on day one of the program kickoff, I already began to re-assess my initial definition! The results were not always positive. He honed his leadership skills during his participation in the program.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 13, 2020

The best leadership qualities and skills need to be developed over time. Learn from some of the best leadership examples to accelerate your career growth. True leaders start exhibiting leadership traits even before people officially start reporting into them. Leadership Qualities. Learn how to become a Product Manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 20, 2022

Organizational leadership is stewardship. Leadership asked customer-based questions like “Have you sold anything yet? If you get a positive answer, invest more and go to the next level of questions. “Almost by definition, a single person could not alone create an innovation.” Innovation Quote.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2021

I have also complemented this with a second meeting where I share wider topics linked to management & leadership (HR news, leadership ongoing topics, new processes and tools …) and provide space for questions and debate. Looking back, this is something I’ll definitely do more often next time a similar situation happens.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. Remember that dealing with people issues is part and parcel of managing a product and that learning to constructively address disagreements and conflict is an important leadership skill.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. While the outward image that an organisation projects needs to be positive and confident, organisations can forget that reality is more nuanced than their marketing would suggest.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

The last 12 of those have been in leadership positions. When I joined Sprinklr, I made it very clear to the leadership team that I had this business, it was very much a side hustle, and I’d be doing it evenings and weekends. Dan: Definitely some advantages as well, as you suspect. What sticks out?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern then we need to make sure no one ever repeats, we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior that we want.” Paul: Exactly, so we spend a ton and ton of time on problem definition. There is definitely innovation in that space, Tesla comes to mind, for example.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Broadening the definition of mentorship. Before offering mentorship to another person, you should always think about whether the person in question definitely wants your help and is open to being mentored. Don’t push your advice onto another person if they haven’t expressed any interest.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So you found a new position as a product leader, congratulations! I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. Even if you’re not starting a new position now, you probably won’t retire from your current company, so at some point, the tips in this article would surely be relevant for you?—?save

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

A great partnership between product and sales needs to be based on shared definitions of success and an agreed upon process to collaborate. But it’s important for both sales and product leadership to remember you can’t “table stakes” your way to a dominant market position. You need to differentiate.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Demonstrate value to management and key stakeholders Performance reporting is often required by senior leadership and key stakeholders who want to ensure that their money is well-spent. This is essential to establish your authority and secure the leadership buy-in for new product initiatives.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. In addition, each team has a metric that is their key measure of success.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Transcendent leaders rise above self-interest and ego and focus on uplifting others and positively impacting the world. Let’s begin with a definition — Transcendent leadership extends beyond conventional notions of success and influence. This article is about my journey to help yours.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

While this definition is incredibly precise, it is also an invitation to practice and come to our senses , again and again. As a first-time founder, I have been reflecting a lot on leadership, mindfulness, and how much of a difference it makes in how I work and interact with my team. What intention do you bring to your role?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2021

It’s important to share both the positive and negative experiences we’ve had among the community and with others so we can learn from – and relate to – one another. . I’ve definitely learned resiliency is number one here. Uplifting the narratives, leadership, and lived experiences of trans people of color.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. They do so by merely meeting the criteria of the Definition of Done.

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