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How to break into product management (when all you have are “business” skills)

The Product Coalition

You need hunger, luck and you need to know how to market yourself The famous Venn diagram shows product management at the intersection of tech , design and business. Anyone who’s used a website or an app can see why tech and design skills are critical for managing digital products. Yet digital products are, of course, businesses.

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How I Write

Sachin Rekhi

Now with 150+ essays published with over 1.5 Now with 150+ essays published with over 1.5 It's no wonder then that 85% of my writing stems directly from my career as a product manager and entrepreneur. The remaining 15% of my essays cover everything from career optimization to life hacks to engineering.

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How To Develop Into An Exponential Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ??

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The 5 most recent design books every designer should read

Imaginary Cloud - Design

While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. little about product design. Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Books that give product managers a light about design or that give designers a light about business. Why is that?

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A Look Back at a Decade of SachinRekhi.com

Sachin Rekhi

I always cherish the holidays because it gives me the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year from both a personal and professional perspective. In that past decade, I've authored 150 essays , mostly sharing everything I've learned about product management and entrepreneurship throughout my career in Silicon Valley.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part I)

UX Planet

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step. Table of contents (part I) 1.