The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level. The Future of PM Leadership As we approach 2025, product management roles are transforming.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

How product managers can empower their teams Today we are talking about how product leaders can create more effective teams by using a people-first leadership approach. Her approach to product leadership empowers individuals, fosters collaboration, and connects with people in an authentic way. Express empathy.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Leadership Product Management Roles Product Director As one of the first tiers of product management leadership, prior experience in leadership is not usually required as this role can be an introduction to a management role for many. In some cases, the CPO may also be responsible for product development and engineering.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

However, the journey to developing a robust personal brand is not without its challenges. Internally, you may be known for your ability to manage cross-functional teams, while externally, you may position yourself as a visionary product leader. Your internal brand, based on solid execution and team leadership, should always come first.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 7, 2022

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 25, 2022

How can product leaders develop a positive mental health culture to ensure that their teams are supported and performing at their best? [.] Read more » The post How to develop a positive mental health culture as a product leader appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? Rapid prototyping.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

Developing your product design career as an individual contributor. 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. What about in five years? What’s next for me?

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. What we discovered is that tech professionals are experiencing a fascinating mix of emotions about their careers in 2025.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. A shared vision unites people.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI affects workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership. As AI tools become more common, product leaders face new challenges in managing teams, fostering innovation, and maintaining a positive work environment.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture. Introduction: The Product Manager’s Unique Challenge Product managers often find themselves in a unique position: responsible for a company’s future success but lacking the formal authority to implement changes directly.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 1, 2021

Today, he’ll help you prepare a path to leadership roles. . 6:28] How can product managers change their mindset to prepare for a senior leadership role? Our brains don’t distinguish between limiting beliefs and positive beliefs. All great leadership starts with self leadership. Assumption.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

The Power of Influence Over Authority Another myth Guy breaks down is the idea that product managers need positional power to lead effectively. Explore our Optimal Product Management course to build the leadership skills, communication habits, and strategic mindset that modern PMs need to lead across functions.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 2, 2024

One way to achieve this is to use Non-Violent Communication (NVC), a conflict resolution framework developed by Marshall Rosenberg. It puts you in the position to make a request and address the root cause of the conflict. Additionally, use positive language and communicate the outcome you’d like to achieve.

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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. The development team representatives are members of one or more cross-functional development teams. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 27, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development Vanta —Automate compliance. The company’s product development philosophy revolves around “impact.”

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. You need both a positional game (long-term strategy) and tactics (short-term wins). Trust that fun and delight are powerful drivers of success.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. During this journey, some of the key challenges that I faced are follows: I found it very difficult to define the positioning statement for the product.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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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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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation. The Best Product Visionary.

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