Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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Why Dale Carnegie, the grandfather of self-help books, endures in the digital age

Intercom, Inc.

Very few non-fiction books have had the long-lasting impact of Dale Carnegie’s 1936 classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People. The title alone was a meme long before memes were a thing – the phrase became shorthand for the cultivation of a winning personality, especially in the pursuit of professional success. So how has the book remained such a bible for sales and marketing professionals?

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Know the World Your Product Lives in

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Peyvand Mohseni (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. You have a product; you are passionate about it, you believe in it, you want it to succeed and you want your users to benefit from its awesomeness. You better know the world in which your product lives, what it can do today, what it will need to do tomorrow, how much it is in demand and what other products do very similar things.

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The Many Hats of Product Managers

ProductBoard

One of the best things about working on a product management solution is getting to interact with so many talented product managers. In the past year alone, we’ve spoken with thousands of PMs who come to us looking for a better way to make product decisions. In our conversations, we’ve heard how product managers split their time listening to their users, prioritizing what to build next, and.

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Google Design Sprints–and other innovation observations for product managers Mar 30, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. What is a Google Design Sprint? In five days put Design Thinking to work with Lean Startup concepts sprinkled in to (1) understand, (2) conceptualize, (3) align, (4) build, and (5) validate a product concept and you have a Google Design Sprint.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Shifting from Projects to Products: A Hero’s Journey

Product Culture

My friend Jason Scherschligt wrote one of my favorite product culture articles. Here’s the money quote: A project is an organizing construct for internal labor. A product is a thoughtful response to a human appetite. Customers aren’t delighted by your organizing construct. They don’t want your budget or timelines met. They want their problems solved, their needs satisfied, their lives improved… Jason has tips on how to make this transition.