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.

Reporting Tools

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. Use data to support your position and explain the trade-offs. Suggested Solution : The key is to respectfully push back when necessary.

Strategy

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.

Data Visualization

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.

Product Research

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.

Data Visualization

Product Talk

JULY 9, 2025

And today, we’re going to look at the same topic, but from a leadership and stakeholder standpoint. And they may be in a higher position in the company. I run these monthly product leadership discussions , and I think they’re all about missing strategic context. It’s often because they want certainty.

Product Research

Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

The Power of Influence Over Authority Another myth Guy breaks down is the idea that product managers need positional power to lead effectively. Explore our Optimal Product Management course to build the leadership skills, communication habits, and strategic mindset that modern PMs need to lead across functions.

Engineering

Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

AI has put you in the best position to do that in a fraction of the time it would take you otherwise. Then our clients can start using them to direct their products from more of a leadership position versus reactionary. AI is finally going to put product managers in the position of strength theyve long coveted.

Product Manager

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It puts you in the position to make a request and address the root cause of the conflict. Additionally, use positive language and communicate the outcome you’d like to achieve. You start by sharing each other’s perspectives. Then, you explore the feelings that are present and connect them to underlying, unmet needs.

Weak Development Team

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Innovation goals were customized to individual roles and responsibilities The Innovation Lab served as a gathering space for collaborative work Employees had freedom to explore projects in their spare time Leadership encouraged but didn’t mandate innovation participation This approach helped create a culture where innovation wasn’t seen (..)

Artificial Inteligence

People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They’ve learned to be adaptable, embrace community, and promote positive coping strategies. Share People-First Leadership How Leaders Should be Thinking About TQ As Scott Belsky describes it, we’re now in a time of “ scaling without growing.” People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Technical Review

Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc., only to be followed by things like writing detailed product specifications, orchestrating sprints, and so on. Here’s the honest truth.

Product Manager

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. You need both a positional game (long-term strategy) and tactics (short-term wins). Trust that fun and delight are powerful drivers of success.

Leadership

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 27, 2025

It helped them redefine their market positioning and significantly expanded their customer base. ” Instead of focusing on shipping features, they prioritize solving real problems that drive business growth. Launching five products simultaneously was a transformative move.

Feedback Software

UX Planet

DECEMBER 25, 2024

I remember sitting in a leadership meeting as the UX leader, and out of nowhere, someone asked, Jas, whats the Return On Investment, aka ROI, on UX? Its about developing meaningful interactions that make a positive difference in peoples lives, which is, I think, priceless. I know I am. In the end, UX is about more than financial gain.

UX

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? Teams that continuously refine positioning and functionality ensure their products stay valuable instead of falling behind competitors. C-suite buy-in requires a business-first framing.

Development

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These are stronger indicators of interest that tell you they really want your product, versus general positive feedback. When pitching early ideas, pay attention to specific actions customers want to take, like asking about pricing or requesting to start a proof of value (POV).

Startups

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Shower them with positivity. ” For example, if a UX writer identifies an impending design conflict and corrals multiple product teams to reconcile it, make sure they know how much you appreciate their leadership. Make it clear how much you welcome that proactivity.

Product Research

BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

Step 4: Summarise Competitor Strategy and Positioning Once youve gathered your data, organise it into a simple comparison table. Compare this analysis to your product strategy and positioning. Sharing your findings with cross-functional teams, especially marketing, sales, and leadership, is key to driving alignment and action.

Data Visualization

Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Companies that embrace diversity in leadership and product teams consistently outperform their competitors. Representation Matters in Leadership Diversity in leadership is critical for employee engagement and retention. Empathy is the Key to Inclusive Product Design Customer empathy is at the heart of great product management.

Product Manager

BrainMates

MAY 28, 2025

Influential Leadership. Theyre what positions product managers (PMs) to deliver long-term value and carve out strategic influence in their organisations. Influential Leadership Credibility without authority Drive alignment across complexity Story and trust The power to guide and align others without formal authority.

Technical Review

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Leadership impacts virtually all worker sentiment dimension s. Workers with extremely effective leadership are 8.2

Technical Review

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To put CTCE into action : Map your current skills by following this script Capture you true niche - identify a community experiencing common changes, pain points, and objectives Identify gaps that align with emerging tech trends and position yourself to fill them. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Data Visualization

People-First Product Leadership

JULY 8, 2025

Translation: most of your leadership moves happen before your conscious mind can say, "Is this still useful?" I recommend updating your leadership OS. ” Our work helped him believe a positive future was possible, and the type of company he sought became clearer. The implications for leadership are significant.

Leadership

BrainMates

JUNE 22, 2025

The Growth Stage of the Product Lifecycle (Part 3) By Jana Paulech At a Glance The growth stage of the product lifecycle begins after achieving product-market fit, requiring sustained exponential growth and a strong, evolving value proposition and positioning to capture and expand the target market.

User Testing

Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” The Alpha company shares information which positions the Alpha widget as being better than both the Zeta and Beta. Does positioning the Alpha widget against the Zeta widget help sales or hinder them?

Customer Experience

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. The business goals, finally, state the positive impact the product should achieve for the business. There are two effective ways in which the individual can be involved.

Systems Review

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

job seekers for every open position, breaking the old "career ladder". A - Audience, assess your position with colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership (skills, impact, satisfaction). There’s no one-size-fits-all path to strategic leadership. The pressure is real. Today's job market isn't making transitions easier.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This was one such situation — the product leadership team agreed and memorialized the decision that our product was bloated, and we needed to streamline it. Instead, they decided to play subversive spy games and convince executive leadership that we needed so many new capabilities that we had to scrap our plans for deletion.

Roadmap

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. How to Lead in Product Management by Roman Pichler Great for developing leadership and alignment skills. Speak their language.

Customer Feedback

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

How do I craft positioning that actually converts? Writers disagree: [link] Recommended books: • Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning So Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It : [link] • Circe : [link] Production and marketing by [link]. Which marketing lever should I pull first?

Analytic Tools

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Failing to incorporate AI considerations into product sense can lead to missed opportunities and eroded market position. Share People-First Leadership 2. Your teams will see leadership backing the change, learn to speak the same language, and work better together. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Product Research

The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A PM who creates unnecessary friction or fails to collaborate constructively isn’t fulfilling their responsibilities and shouldn’t remain in the role—just as with any other position.

Weak Development Team

UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Elevate Experiences with Dopamine Banking and DigitalBranding At the crossroads of UX design, psychology and brand strategy lies the idea of Dopamine Bankingmixing small rewards, gamification and emotional connection to make managing money feel less like a chore and more like a positive experience. Key steps for leadership to consider: 1.

Finance