The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Inspire Confidence with a Clear Vision A compelling product vision unites teams and stakeholders, positioning you as a leader with purpose and direction.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Future of AI in Product Development: Team Collaboration In our discussion, Mike shares an exciting vision of how AI will transform team collaboration in product development. This balanced approach ensures that teams can benefit from AI’s capabilities while avoiding the pitfalls of over-automation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Yet, like many managers, my calendar is packed, my unread Slack messages seem endless, and my attention is pulled in countless directions. Now that I have experienced AI-augmented product management and leadership, I don’t think I could work for a company where AI wasn’t allowed. It has already leveled up my game.

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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. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. e-commerce. Is it a rivalry, or a desire to build something better?

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

Use these insights to refine your roadmap, adjust messaging, or highlight competitive advantages. Sharing your findings with cross-functional teams, especially marketing, sales, and leadership, is key to driving alignment and action. Let competitor insights sharpen your thinking, not narrow your vision.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Tailor Your Message: Different stakeholders care about different thingsexecs want impact, engineers want feasibility, marketers want positioning. If stakeholders feel heard, theyre more likely to buy into your vision and collaborate. Your job is to align everyone around a shared vision. Speak their language.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development • Sinch —Build messaging, email, and calling into your product — Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Customers come with a set of expectations—whether it’s ease of use, reliability, or customer support—that are shaped by prior experiences, market trends, and your product messaging. For product managers: Clear alignment between product vision and execution is essential.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Share People-First Leadership 2. You can replace “product sense” with “product vision” When an organization implements a go-to-market and organizational change like the one described in the question, the strategy stack needs an update. Stay tuned for insights that can shape your approach to product leadership.

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BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference. Provide Leadership in the Development of Roadmaps A roadmap is a critical tool for alignment. Marketing Team Marketing develops positioning and messaging for the new freemium experience. Establish Transparent Workflows Ambiguity can stall progress.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2025

Using Telnet or NetCat, create a chat server that allows multiple clients to connect and send messages to one another. How would you engineer features to improve the accuracy of a toxicity detection model in chat messages? You’ll also be expected to ask high-level questions about company vision. 

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Each area builds upon the others, creating a comprehensive framework for leadership through influence. Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership).

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Youll blend the strategic mindset of a growth product manager with the creative vision of a UX designer – driving repeat engagement, gamification, and social participation. Experience leading product teams building consumer products in personal productivity, search, education, or messaging. How can Artem benefit your company?

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airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead, it’s about the artful combination of enduring values (the keel) and adaptive strategy (the sail), all guided by leadership (the rudder) that knows when and how to tack. The rudder: Leadership and executive decision-making – guiding and steering the organization. It used to drive me crazy,” he admits.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 27, 2025

These messages are a small yet significant way to recognize the dedication and hard work of our community members. So kick back, enjoy the colorful confetti, and take a moment to read through the wonderful messages our team has shared across the Gainsight Community. Kenneth and Revathi, we are beyond lucky to have you.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Critically, bank leadership is on board — according to an Ernst & Young survey, “nearly every bank’s board now stamps ‘yes’ on generative AI” initiatives. institutions given their scale and technological leadership. AI also enabled conversational engagement through chat and messaging interfaces.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

My framework address five barriers to digital transformation: Lack of shared vision: A lot of companies have a generic intent to become more digital or futureproof the business, but those phrases are meaningless and generic, as opposed to a vision that is specific to the company. Where do we see our world, context, customers,

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2021

Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash So many aspects in our lives are based on other people’s visions coming true. Going through history, visions which became reality changed our lives dramatically, and as technology progresses, this becomes more and more true. From my experience, there are four steps for turning a vision into reality.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Strategy and vision. Leadership. What do individual contributor design leaders do at Intercom?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. Lisa explains that “Orchestration is a catch-all term that refers to orchestrating messages across different channels—sometimes referred to as cross-channel orchestration.” Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

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. After a lot of thought and interaction with others, I wrote a vision for the Summit that focused on professional development and learning for product managers and leaders. [8:16] And more.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous. Here’s how we did it.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Nulab

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Traditional top-down managerial structures for leadership are being replaced with bottom-up styles of working. Organizations need to be dynamic if they want to attract and retain the best workers — and collaborative leadership is one way to do that. What is collaborative leadership? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

As these skills form a large set, I like to divide them into three sub groups: strategic, tactical, and leadership capabilities, as the picture below shows. Leadership skills enable you to effectively guide the development team and lead the stakeholders, create an inspiring vision , and reach sustainable agreements , to name just a few.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Always callout non-goals, in addition to the goals for a leadership review you are leading Earlier on in my PM career, while I would call out the explicit goals and feedback I needed from leadership reviews, I never took the time to communicate what we would not discuss. to get alignment. Done, right? Use the “so-what?”

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Pendo’s recent State of Product Leadership survey found that 77% of product teams are evaluated based on the number of features they ship. Without a sense of product vision, product teams may be more likely to say “yes” to new features that may not add value to users. Back to our messaging app example.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Of course, keeping tactical work aligned with company goals and vision is a critical part of any successful product manager’s job , so this trend to ask for more “strategic thinking” from product people can feel like an invitation to take on more meaningful and high-status work. Leadership should guide, not dictate.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Founded and headquartered in Landshut, Germany, HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform (a messaging protocol used for connecting sensors and devices, such as in the Internet of Things). In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If With Pendo, product teams can understand user behavior and sentiment and then act on those insights by engaging with users through in-app messaging or surveys. What I was looking at was a product vision and a roadmap and I was like I want that job.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 15, 2015

One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had at LinkedIn is the opportunity to see Jeff Weiner’s leadership in action. His disciplined approach to leadership has transformed the concept in my mind from an amorphous set of soft skills to a key competitive differentiator in scaling organizations. The importance of repetition.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 16, 2018

This leads to a tunnel vision focus on optimizing funnels and growth hacking button colors, and ignores investing time in equally important tasks, like creating emotional connections with your customers. Your brand values are closely tied to your mission and vision. No company is.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I recently attended an excellent leadership programme, which led me to reflect more deeply on what makes a stand out leader. Of course, a large part of leadership is about designing good domain strategy & operating models etc, but this article focuses on the more emotive, people elements. Recognition for what they do.

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