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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership.

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Gratitude as a Leadership Principle in Product Management

The Product Guy

While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. Incorporating Gratitude Into Daily Leadership Incorporating gratitude into your leadership doesn’t require grand gestures. Simple, consistent actions can have a profound impact.

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From Bias to Better Leadership: Harpal Singh on Self-Awareness and Team Growth

The Product Guy

In this episode, Harpal Singh reflects on the tough leadership lessons he’s learned, from navigating hiring bias to managing across cultures and growth stages. Product managers are often praised for high standards, but what happens when those standards cause more harm than good?

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How to prioritise your work for impact – Nacho Bassino (Product Leadership Coach)

Mind the Product

He highlights the need for product managers to connect user behaviour with business outcomes and to facilitate decision-making Read more » The post How to prioritise your work for impact – Nacho Bassino (Product Leadership Coach) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. But how do you know if you're succeeding?

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How Maya Brooks Builds Value Through Product Philosophy and Feminist Leadership

The Product Guy

What You’ll Learn: Designing for Goodwill : Why community-centered product strategy pays off Real-Time Feedback Loops : Using tight-knit Slack communities for continuous insight Holistic PM Thinking : Building long-term value across every founder stage Product with Purpose : Balancing mission and business priorities at scale Leadership Through (..)

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Mastering Product Leadership, AI, and Ad Tech with Neha Bansal

Productside

Stepping into product leadership means balancing strategic vision, customer focus, and emerging tech. Key Topics Discussed in This Episode Key topic #1 From Consulting to Product Leadership Neha shares how a customer-first mindset led her from consulting to product management at companies like Google and Meta.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic!

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. The wrong organizational structure can create friction of all kinds.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result. We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. Our “good idea” is simply the beginning.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations. And the answers focus on leadership. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode. When and how to encourage learning in your team.

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The State of Product Leadership Report 2021

This is just one of the findings in this year’s State of Product Leadership report. Delivery is the top success metric for product leaders. But should it be? Download the report to discover more ways product management is changing in 2021.