Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Market Research Jack emphasizes that market research remains the most important skill for product managers. Modern approaches include: Advanced Research Technologies Eye tracking for user experience studies AI-powered customer insight analysis Predictive analytics for market trends Sensory analysis techniques 6.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

You need a coalition shared purpose, mutual trust, and real support behind your product vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The core focus of these activities is on thorough market research, continuous customer engagement, and strategic product development. This led him to research and identify 19 core activities specific to product management, with clear separation from product marketing, sales, and go-to-market functions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level. The Future of PM Leadership As we approach 2025, product management roles are transforming.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership. Atif has spent 25 years working in both Silicon Valley and Fortune 500 companies, including leadership roles at Amazon, McDonald’s (as their first Chief Digital Officer), Volvo, and MGM Resorts.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

Discussing product leadership and challenges, Orly shares her unconventional path into product, the lessons she learned turning around a failed product, and how she builds high-performing teams in global tech companies. Product Leadership Through Challenges Nicole: That was incredibly boldand it really paid off.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. In this thought-provoking episode, youll gain: A framework for refining product-market fit without unnecessary pivots.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. Measure outcomes.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. As the wellness market grows more competitive, WellNests product managers are under increasing pressure to deliver features requested by sales, executives, and enterprise clientsoften with little time to step back and assess strategic impact.

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Productside

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Productside Stories S2 Ep5: Angela Fleming In this Productside Stories episode, we chat with Angela Fleming, VP of Product at Free Agent, about her unique journey from the world of marketing into product management. If you’re navigating your own product career, Angela’s story is packed with actionable insights.

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Productside

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Productside Stories S2 Ep5: Angela Fleming In this Productside Stories episode, we chat with Angela Fleming, VP of Product at Free Agent, about her unique journey from the world of marketing into product management. If you’re navigating your own product career, Angela’s story is packed with actionable insights.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Engineering may want to focus on technical debt, while marketing wants to accelerate a product launch.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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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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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 1, 2025

Shobhits 3 Momentum-Building Tips: 1⃣ Celebrate Market Wins: Don’t let success go unnoticed. How I PM is a video series where PMs of all levels and backgrounds share real-world product management tipsfrom strategy and execution to leadership and mindset.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Often, people in the middle or bottom third of an organization try to communicate their ideas to leadership who don’t understand the idea or are scared of innovation, so many great ideas fail. At AvidXchange his roles spanned numerous functions, including development, product, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. If they see your decisions are driven by actual market feedback, youll start earning trust. Or if your dev team never sees market data, start a quick monthly market update. Decisions Happen Without You Symptom : Eng or Marketing sets all priorities.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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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. I would love to hear your thought- connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter Did you know?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for ChatGPT for consumers and enterprises, as well as their developer API platform. While at Stripe, she spent over eight years building and scaling their marketing function from scratch. An engineer turned marketer, Krithika brings a uniquely analytical approach to marketing.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 27, 2024

If you want to understand the art of tension management in product leadership, this episode provides key strategies. Leadership in Action: Recognizing when to challenge and when to bring harmony to your team. What You’ll Learn: The Power of Productive Tension: How to create and resolve tension to drive better outcomes.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

Companies that want to stay relevant need to solve real problems, adapt faster than the market, and lead with clarity across silos. His insights are grounded in decades of hands-on leadership across engineering, business development, and product strategyand his take on innovation is both practical and bold. The best leaders blend both.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? Market shifts determine product lifespan. Teams that actively monitor product-market fit and performance metrics are better equipped to decide when to pivot, iterate, or retire a product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

A lot of companies are pumping out demos of AI passing the bar exam or creating a marketing plan in 30 seconds. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement. Walmart tried a text-messaged-based commerce concierge service called Jet Black, which was an upscale product in select markets.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Authenticity in Leadership : The value of honesty about your strengths and gaps to succeed as a product manager. What You’ll Learn: Ambition and Curiosity : Why a self-starter mindset and openness to learning are essential. Overcoming Insecurity : How being vulnerable and asking questions can accelerate your growth.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Share it with leadership. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter. Whats been your biggest challenge in refining product-market fit? As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time.

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The discussion explores practical applications of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude in product development, including MVP refinement, customer testing, and marketing content creation. However, Mike emphasizes the importance of balancing AI capabilities with human oversight, warning against over-reliance on AI.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

If colleagues or leadership feel that you are more focused on self-promotion than contributing to team success, it can erode trust. Your internal brand, based on solid execution and team leadership, should always come first. The Controversy : Over-prioritizing your external brand can sometimes lead to friction within your organization.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?

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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.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research. Ideally, you should have managed revenue-generating and supporting products across multiple life cycle stages and events, including launch, product-market fit, and retirement.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Lessons from GE: Insights gained from innovative web app development and leadership rotations. What You’ll Learn: Early Entrepreneurship: Garretts journey from selling Gobstoppers to becoming a tech leader. Innovating in Ad Tech: How Garrett used AI to double ad click-through rates.

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