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7 Principles of Open Source Leadership

Modus Create

In this post, I’ll discuss seven leadership principles inspired by the open-source community. They never allow a team member to fail by purposely withholding information. Instead, leaders must foster a culture in their teams where curiosity thrives and information is accessible. . Use Knowledge to Empower People.

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How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Operating a company with informal performance reviews and limited planning processes requires competent, driven, and trustworthy individuals. The company values transparency and open communication from everyone, including leadership. Continuously hiring people who raise the bar is crucial to their culture functioning at scale.

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Servant Leadership – Corporate Cliché or Practical Philosophy?

Modus Create

Servant leadership is a mainstay of corporate cultures worldwide. Like most leadership phenomena, it evokes both passionate adoration and scoffing. What is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a management philosophy in which the primary goal of the leader is to serve their direct reports.

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. Tweet This.

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How to Make Sure Your Product Leadership Team Will Boost You Up - Not Drag You Down

Bain Public

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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AGILE OR FRAGILE

The Product Coalition

When all the ideas come from the management/leadership and not from the team building and managing the project. For a lot of organizations, the whole idea of the product comes from the leadership and not from every team member. Word of mouth information always have tendencies to be filtered down as it passes from one person to another.

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Technical Product Manager: Exploring Their Role and Responsibilities

Userpilot

Technical product managers are also responsible for running experiments and collecting customer feedback to inform future iterations. To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. However, you need the right mix of technical and leadership skills.