Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2025

With just months to go until INDUSTRY: The Product Conference returns to Cleveland Ohio, on September 9-10, the stage is set for another standout gathering of the product community.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Product Verification In discussing product verification, Nishant highlighted how this crucial activity has transformed dramatically with the adoption of different development methodologies, particularly in the software industry. The Validation Component The heart of solution identification lies in customer validation.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. This approach has informed her success across different industries and roles, from retail to technology. ” The problem?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 7, 2022

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. You’re sort of trying to describe reality but also pull the industry in a certain direction. Take architects.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Balancing Internal and External Branding One of the trickiest aspects of PM branding is balancing how you are perceived within your company versus in the broader industry. If colleagues or leadership feel that you are more focused on self-promotion than contributing to team success, it can erode trust.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. Keep an eye out for events, podcasts, blogs, and more!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Through our screening questions, we were able to tap into mirroring Civians user group quite accurately.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. The post Conversations, Conflict and Leadership – Roman Pichler on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Better Products. Better Product People.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. Know Your Industry. To be an effective head of product, I find it helpful to understand the industry the company is in. Having said that, I consider industry knowledge as a plus but not mandatory: You can typically acquire the relevant knowledge comparatively quickly.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Where do we see our world, context, customers, and industry going? What is the role that we see ourselves in, in this rapidly evolving future around our particular organization? Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities.

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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 Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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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?" There will be more CPOs and leadership positions in product, but not enough people to fill them. There will be a lot more Product Managers in the industry who need a place to learn now.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI affects workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership. In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI impacts workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership strategies, offering insights for product managers in this evolving landscape.

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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

JULY 4, 2019

I remained in the consulting industry for a few years before I gaining an opportunity in the start-up industry. As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions. Better Products.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Three Pillars of Leadership: Know, Do, Be Effective product managers are more than just idea generators or task managers. To excel in this leadership role, focus on these three key areas: Know: Develop a comprehensive understanding of your product, market, and team dynamics. They are leaders who inspire and guide their teams.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. Vice President of Product This leadership role is less involved in day-to-day product management and is instead responsible for managing PM teams. Fortunately, we have all the insights you’ll need to succeed.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

Many of them are in leadership roles, such as Product VPs, CPOs, and Heads of Innovation. Then I landed firmly in the European car tech industry at a car buying marketplace where I stayed for three years. Leadership characteristics will serve you incredibly well. Ask yourself, do I have those leadership skills?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This requires top-down support and leadership to create a culture that values and prioritizes customer-centricity. This is often the ideal setup for SaaS and technical products, but let’s not forget that every industry is different, and it’s crucial to consider your goals and your customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Industrial-Organizational Psychologist to earn the Cialdini Method Certified Trainer certification, demonstrating his expertise in influence and persuasion. 5:05] What is your leadership philosophy? True leadership is not about being the boss. Useful links: Leadership development with LeaderAmp. He is also the only Ph.D.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With our expert guests, Garrett Lang (PlateRate, Founder and President) and Amil Shah (RBC Capital Markets, Senior Product Manager) , we discussed strategies for balancing leadership pressures, navigating feature requests, and crafting a personal brand that opens doors to new opportunities.

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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. 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.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 25, 2022

He has helped organizations across several industries navigate change created by large transformation projects. Throughout my career, I saw a pattern: Change leadership made the difference in whether change was successful or not, yet those change leaders were essentially abandoned by the industry.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. They may have additional color and suggestions.

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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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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.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. The Thick of It and W1A shows. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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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 Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. It also allows me to connect CMU and its world-class graduate degree programs and students who are interested in and excited about product to industry through internships, capstone projects and employment opportunities.

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