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Leadership Without Authority By Aeneas McDonnell

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Aeneas McDonnell , Director of Product at The Times and Sunday Times shares with us some guidelines on how we as product people can be leaders without having clear authority. Leadership, he says, is a choice you make rather than a place where you sit. His key points include: Anyone can be a leader.

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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454: How product leaders can best increase team performance – with Tami Reiss

Product Innovation Educators

She guides product leaders through defining their personal product vision then taking the right steps to make it a reality. Connection—help people feel connected to each other and the larger mission and vision of the company. Leadership is what you are doing that makes people follow you.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section.

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UX Strategy: Step-By-Step Guide for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines. To make the vision actionable, break it down into specific objectives and select corresponding success metrics.

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Product Principles – A Leadership Tool

BrainMates

The Product Leadership struggle is akin to the Entrepreneurship struggle because the role has no clear learning path. Product Principles are a simple set of guidelines that reminds the team to behave in an agreed way. The Struggle is when you don’t believe you should be Chief Product Officer of the company. What are Product Principles?

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership. The experience of building Facebook’s News Feed is a great lesson on the importance of having conviction in your vision, even when faced with initial resistance.

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