Wed.Apr 19, 2017

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10 Writing Tips For Product Managers

The Secret PM Handbook

Tips for writing. (CC BY-SA 2.0 by jvleis). I’ve started working on an online course on “writing for product managers.” It will come out in the next few months. In the process, useful tips about writing keep popping up. These tips will help you make your product management writing more persuasive, easier to read, more engaging, and more effective overall.

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Power Up: Three Ways to Increase Your Product Leadership Power

Roman Pichler

Increase Your Referent Power. Your first power source is your ability to influence others based on your personality and interpersonal skills. It’s the capability you can immediately boost simply by being a decent person. To do so, cultivate skilful qualities like compassion, courage, truthfulness, patience, humbleness. This will earn you the respect and trust of your followers and at the same time, it will make you a happier person.

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Technology is Distracting and Addictive. Here’s How to Fix It. (Video)

Nir Eyal

Our personal technology is becoming more pervasive and persuasive. Critics claim it is addictive, irresistible, and hijacking our brain. Instead of offering another knee-jerk reaction, here’s my take on the perils and promise of persuasive technology. This is the talk I gave at the 2017 Habit Summit where I discuss and offer some solutions for: […].

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Building a Product Startup Within an Agency

Mind the Product

Every product comes with a tumultuous ‘origin story’. Ours is still unfolding, but I’ve been reflecting on what building a product business within a service agency has brought to the tale. We decided, about 18 months ago, that our consultancy business model, though growing and successful, could benefit from diversification — specifically, from creating something with tangible intellectual property.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Paying It Forward: Product Camp SV Keynote

Mironov Consulting

This short talk is about Paying It Forward and the important of personal networking in the product management community. I share three personal vignettes from 2001, 2008 and 2016 to highlight why face-to-face networking is so important — and ways we can all Pay It Forward to build an even stronger product community. Highlights: Asking “how can I be of help” even when you’re the one asking for help.

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10 Questions from The Clever PM

Mironov Consulting

I’ve known Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM , for years — and follow his blog/Quora activity/social posts. As part of his “10 Questions” series, he reached out for some long-form discussion. See the full post here , which covers items including. What does “Product Management” mean to me? What are the biggest challenges that Product Managers face?