Tue.Feb 06, 2018

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Successful employee onboarding should focus on culture

Intercom, Inc.

Onboarding new employees is a hard process to do well. You might think of onboarding as something you just have to check off your list, but it’s easy to forget that things which are second nature to you are totally new and unknown to someone that’s just started. I joined Intercom a few months ago as an engineering manager and onboarding for the first time in a while made me realize some things I hadn’t before.

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Leading Through Shared Goals

Roman Pichler

The Product Leadership Conundrum. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success. But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product. At the same time, you can’t tell the individuals what to do or assign tasks to them, and you are typically not in a position to offer incentives, like a bonus or pay rise.

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What I Learned about Management and Culture from Growing Uber’s Asia Business from Zero to Billions

First Round Review

For four years, Mike Brown oversaw all aspects of Uber's business in Asia. Now he's sharing what startups can learn from his experience to go big.

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Product Warrior Launches First Podcast, Thinking Big and Small With John Cutler

Mind the Product

Product Warrior launches a weekly podcast, supported by Mind The Product, dedicated to supporting product managers in their decision making. The first episode, titled “Thinking big and small”, is out now, featuring guest John Cutler and host Dave Martin, chief product officer at Tes Global. John, a senior product manager and “all-round product junkie”, discusses continuous improvement and explores what improvement means to product managers.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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It’s a New Age for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

I had the pleasure of hearing Steven Sinofsky (responsible for leading Windows, Office, IE, Outlook.com, and Skydrive product at various parts of his MSFT career) speak at the first Products that Count Leading Teams Retreat a few years ago. We in the Bay Area sometimes forget that some of the first Product Management roles were constructed in Seattle by the company that dominated the Software Industry from the advent of the digital revolution?

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7 Must-See Resources About Healthcare Technology

TSIA

For decades, healthcare and HT vendors have operated under a traditional manufacturing model–sell equipment and technology, and service it when it breaks. Translating that equipment or software into actual clinical business value was previously left up to the healthcare provider. The recent advent of subscription business models where care providers are paying only when they use their equipment, and also have the abilty to stop paying if they don’t receive value from it, is now forci

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What I Learned about Management and Culture from Growing Uber’s Asia Business from Zero to Billions

First Round Review

For four years, Mike Brown oversaw all aspects of Uber's business in Asia. Now he's sharing what startups can learn from his experience to go big.