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The Leadership Side of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

Product Management University

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. This is where persuasion skills are paramount to leadership. It doesn’t stop there.

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ONE THING on Product Leadership

Product Culture

Sarah must work closely with engineering, design, support, services, sales, marketing, and even finance to set expectations on what will be in the roadmap going forward and what will not. This is product leadership. That’s not to say it will be easy. Do you have similar stories?

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Why CFOs Should Embrace Human-First Leadership

Gainsight

Once, finance leaders had a simple mandate: Keep the books up to date, make sure the numbers add up, and track where the money flows. That changed over time, and finance now anchors every aspect of the organization in actionable analytics. Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Look in the mirror.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Jennifer Marx, Vice President of Product Management at Sythentaic?

280 Group

” Jennifer shares her product management wisdom, including being authentic, decisive, and how PM leaders should focus on having a servant-leadership attitude. . “ I had never worked directly on an AI product before, nor had I worked in a startup, but the more it scared me, the more I knew it’s what I had to do next.”

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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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How Patreon Embraces Cross-Functional Data Leadership

Amplitude

A large part of their success can be attributed to effective cross-functional data leadership. How is data helping finance and legal make better forecasts? 3 Keys to Strong Cross-Functional Data Leadership. Strong cross-functional data leadership is dependent on more than just collaboration and communication.

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485: How product managers can navigate “Big-Bet” transformations – with John Rossman

Product Innovation Educators

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. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.