Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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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

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 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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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. Orly: Energy.

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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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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. When people see the vision, they align faster. Share it with leadership. Whats been your biggest challenge in refining product-market fit? It aligns quickly.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

At the high end of the labor market, people make decisions based on other things: whether they get to work with great people, grow their strengths, and accomplish something meaningful. a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product.

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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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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. Its consequently not only relevant to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and extending the product lifecycle. There are two effective ways in which the individual can be involved.

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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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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. ” [10:51] Tell us about your framework for digital transformation. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Sometimes you buy a rival to scoop up its customers or to leapfrog into a new market segment. Competitive Pressure Your biggest rival just acquired a platform.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. It aligns business decisions with strategic vision. Effective roadmaps translate leadership’s vision into a guided conversation with stakeholders. Balance the need for flexibility in your market strategy against the average size of projects.

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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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For a commercial product, they might include a marketer, a sales rep, and a customer support team member, as I explain in more detail in the article Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right. Let’s take a look at them.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. What is the company’s vision? Do you intend, for instance, to address existing markets?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

3:11] Target Market: product managers and product leaders. [3:59] 6:41] Vision: Anytime we’re thinking about a product, vision is a very important aspect of planning to get the team on the same page. Product leadership. 3:11] Target Market: product managers and product leaders. [3:59] Product leadership. *

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The AI fueled product manager also gives product management leaders and executives their long-awaited wish of having a team with stronger market savvy that consistently operates more strategically and does it with a high degree of consistency. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. Here’s the honest truth.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control. Far from dictating terms, PMs serve as facilitators, synthesizing input from engineers, designers, marketers, and other stakeholders to ensure that products meet customer needs and business objectives.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. Using Customer Knowledge to Establish a Clear Vision and Priorities That Stick.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She guides product leaders through defining their personal product vision then taking the right steps to make it a reality. Connection—help people feel connected to each other and the larger mission and vision of the company. Leadership is what you are doing that makes people follow you.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research. It means that you don’t have to worry about getting up to speed with new markets, competitors, and products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons along the way. Key insight: Hold your vision, but pivot on tactics when needed. ” The big lesson was to solve a real user need.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Since then, market dynamics have shifted, competitors have launched new capabilities, and your customers needs have evolvedbut your team is still marching toward that old roadmap. Basecamp exemplifies this approach by openly encouraging debate and dissent to refine their vision. Spoiler alertthey wont.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. Starting as a snowboard shop in 2004, Shopify has become the leading commerce platform by consistently approaching problems differently.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Many teams, like sales and marketing, have time-bound goals, like reaching $X in bookings or generating Y leads by a specific date. Or asking a marketing team to get a set number of leads from a specific campaign. Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. But sometimes companies take this too far.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. 17:30] Tell us about product vision.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations. Please check that out using your favorite podcast app by searching for Advance Leadership Conversations. Useful links: Advance Leadership Conversations.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. Consequently, you’ll benefit from the input of a marketer and a sales rep. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance.

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