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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Lenny Rachitsky

This means setting measurable goals and behaviors that align with your leadership principles and organizational values. To maintain a high bar for quality, Claire recommends the following: Define specific expectations: Clearly articulate what success looks like at each level within your organization.

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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

He began his career in engineering at Apple, where he helped build key features that remain in iOS today. Tom was previously the VP of Product at Snap and the chief technology officer of Pandora.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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10 Books All Product Managers Should Have On Their Desk

Sequent Learning

An essential resource for product management leadership, Managing Product Management lays the groundwork for moving Product Management out of a supporting role and establishing it as a vital, strategic partner with other business functions. The Business Acumen Handbook by Steven Haines. Managing Product Management by Steven Haines.

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My Top 5 Reads for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Our leadership team had just started reading it and wanted all of the product managers to read it too. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan This is basically the best handbook on product management that I’ve ever read. The Lean Startup is pretty fundamental to product development these days.