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5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)

Lenny Rachitsky

To win in business, you must be either a low-cost provider or differentiated. If so, you’re not differentiated enough. What management systems are required to ensure the capabilities are in place? Put in place supportive systems and processes to sustain your capabilities over time.

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How To Climb The Product Marketing Career Ladder Faster

Product Management University

It’s more about demonstrating stronger leadership. That credibility is often what differentiates you in the end. Think Outside The Box and Try Something Different In my first product marketing job, our company had a system extensions group. Competitive Differentiation The lead story here is not a feature comparison matrix.

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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Avoid generic or identity values (like “we build good software”) that lack differentiation and fail to provide useful guidance for employees. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , Overcast , and YouTube.

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Beyond the Five Whys: The Power of Smart Questioning for Product Leaders

People-First Product Leadership

Welcome to the AI era, where the differentiator is how you ask a question. Developmental leadership helps organizations navigate complex challenges and drive positive change in uncertain environments. Subscribe now Rise of Developmental Leadership Developmental leadership emphasizes creating conditions for all employees to grow daily.

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F.E².A.R.?—?A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1

The Product Coalition

While the use of the framework is evident at the execution stage, it is equally applicable during business prioritization to identify product-market fit, competitive differentiation, and strategic alignment. However, imagine that the app doesn’t integrate into the rest of the system resulting in the front-desk navigating between two systems.

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Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy

Roman Pichler

For example, cost leadership (low prices), differentiation (uniquely desirable products and services), or focus (niche markets)—three options originally suggested by Michael Porter. Which management systems are required? The leadership team of any company must lead the effort to create, review, and adjust the business strategy.

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Key Differences in Deploy and Release in DevOps

Split

To ensure a successful deployments process, software teams should leverage version control systems like GitHub, along with automation and testing frameworks. The key to this differentiation lies in the strategic use of feature flags.