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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. Trevor explains, “The leadership team felt like discovery was ‘taking too long.’

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How to Step into Leadership and Grow a Winning Product Team 

280 Group

Transitioning into a leadership role after years as a rockstar Product Manager is exciting – but it’s no easy task. In your new position, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of Product Managers and Product Owners, helping them advance their careers while you guide them in strategy creation and tactical execution.

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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. He is the author of two foundational engineering career books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer , and The Engineering Executive’s Primer , which will be released in February.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. 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.