The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. Measure outcomes.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. By taking on more responsibilities, I need to demonstrate leadership and gain the confidence and trust of my stakeholders. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement. Better Decisions.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2022

Ronke Majekodunmi, currently Senior Product Manager for Large Enterprise at PayPal, has a lot of sound advice about how to lead cross-functional teams fearlessly as a product manager. Read more » The post Lessons in fearless leadership appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. As the wellness market grows more competitive, WellNests product managers are under increasing pressure to deliver features requested by sales, executives, and enterprise clientsoften with little time to step back and assess strategic impact.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Share it with leadership. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter. As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time. Use the Storyboard to Drive Feedback and Buy-In Once your storyboards ready, dont wait.

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The Product Guy

JULY 9, 2020

Learn how a combination of leadership tactics and agile methodologies can help you lead a high functioning team that ultimately comes together in peace and harmony, delivers software every week, and does a retro every time to figure out how you can improve. Check it out… About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2020

Product Managers must be able to communicate to a variety of people across different departments – stakeholders, developers, designers, marketing, leadership, etc. – and, although we wish it were true, one message or document doesn’t work for all groups. Check it out… About The Product Mentor. Better Products.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While the role still requires strong leadership skills, the most successful product managers approach their work differently than what the “CEO of the product” phrase might suggest. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? While the previous section mentioned the importance of digital transformation, let’s dive deeper into the specific benefits enterprises can expect and showcase the urgency of embracing this change.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" As more enterprises turn digital, this will become a stronger need for them. There will be more CPOs and leadership positions in product, but not enough people to fill them. 2019: "Product reports to the CPO."

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

As the head of product, you play a key part in developing the people on your team, creating an environment that helps them succeed, and improving the effectiveness of the product management function in the enterprise. [2]. Self-Leadership. Note that I have kept the description of the responsibilities concise. Look after yourself.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In this week’s podcast episode, we speak with Shannon Scott, SVP, Global Head of Product at Airwallex, who shares insights on product leadership, career paths, hiring strategies, and the challenges of building enterprise products.

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Clint Padgett – Project Success

JUNE 6, 2025

Episode Information: Clint Padgett continues his conversation with Eric Stone , author of Jumpstart Your Workplace Culture , former Enterprise Holdings executive, and current founder & CEO of Clear Path Ventures. Plus, Eric explains why the best leaders know when to subtract instead of add.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. Magdaline is an Enterprise Product Manager who has played a key role in major electronic communication & collaboration initiatives. About Magdaline Derosena. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Management often believes that poor strategy can be made up by iterating/or pivoting execution, where operational expenditures are relatively low as compared to capital-intensive enterprises. Done correctly, its contents should also not be a surprise when it comes time to circulate it around the company. More About The Product Mentor.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Leadership impacts virtually all worker sentiment dimension s. Workers with extremely effective leadership are 8.2

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. Big Bets typically happen at the enterprise level but can happen at the team or product level. Today, it is not.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. For example, in one of the features, engineering leadership wanted me to cut down on the scope to accommodate the ask within the expected timeline. More About The Product Mentor.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Previously, Greg was the CEO and a Board Member of Sopheon (LON: SPE), a leader in enterprise innovation and product management software and services, where he successfully led the company to a private equity exit.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Under her leadership, Vydia’s Product team has successfully launched a record number of robust features in 2019, elevating the company’s services in content supply chain, rights management, analytics, and payments. Gaudio is a graduate of Monmouth University where she remains an active life and career mentor for both students and post-grads.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. The feasibility risk was one of the major reasons for the launch failure of the Information Kiosk. No one liked the product.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you’re enterprise, you typically have a large portfolio of products that all need work done to them, but it has to be balanced with your budget. And only when leadership has not set a strategy for them. That is not leadership. Providing structure around that mess is not enough.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap. Quotes of the Episode. This place is a mess.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The HiveMQ MQTT Platform is designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress and is the proven enterprise standard. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. In many cases we can’t reach them in-app because of the nature of our product.”

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

In a world where SaaS and tech are transforming businesses with recurring revenue models and subscription-based products and services, even the most established enterprise players need to adapt. But alignment is more than just having a seat at the leadership table. But this is more than just a revenue transformation. .

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. His experience includes software development, program management, and product management ranging from enterprise B2B to consumer-facing media software.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 28, 2020

With digital transformation and customer experience at the forefront of most enterprise brand strategies in 2020 , product-focused roles are changing drastically. We’re already seeing companies – specifically enterprises – begin switching up their organizational structure in order to prioritize CX. What KPIs are core to CX?

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. I have spent 30 years in the enterprise software space, as a founder, entrepreneur, investor and board member. I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for ChatGPT for consumers and enterprises, as well as their developer API platform. What makes messaging stick with developers, enterprises, and consumers? While at Stripe, she spent over eight years building and scaling their marketing function from scratch.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2020

As tech continues its path toward democratization, with better offerings available to more people, an odd contradiction has revealed itself: on the enterprise side of things, most software simply isn’t very good. I’m not trying to become an enterprise software company.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Particularly when selling to the enterprise, where sales teams and looming analyst reports can drive product decisions, companies frequently adopt a “more is more” mentality when it comes to features. Pendo’s recent State of Product Leadership survey found that 77% of product teams are evaluated based on the number of features they ship.

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