Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

How product managers can empower their teams Today we are talking about how product leaders can create more effective teams by using a people-first leadership approach. Her approach to product leadership empowers individuals, fosters collaboration, and connects with people in an authentic way. It’s a great icebreaker.

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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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. 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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. 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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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 Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Leadership Product Management Roles Product Director As one of the first tiers of product management leadership, prior experience in leadership is not usually required as this role can be an introduction to a management role for many. Learn more: The Leadership Side Of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. We often hear about this transition from members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community who are new to leadership roles and either write in with questions or step in to share their experiences. The list got pretty long quickly—like 20 issues,” says Trevor.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 7, 2022

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future.

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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 Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership. We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2021

Little in a company is more important than the successful transition to a leadership role — make good decisions as a senior leader and you’ll positively impact the business. But transition to product leadership isn’t always easy. McKinsey posits that 50% of [.]

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Internally, you may be known for your ability to manage cross-functional teams, while externally, you may position yourself as a visionary product leader. If colleagues or leadership feel that you are more focused on self-promotion than contributing to team success, it can erode trust.

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

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.

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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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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.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Congratulations on your new leadership position! Assuming a new leadership role is a significant challenge, whether you’ve transitioned within your current organization or stepped into an entirely new one .Each Each time I stepped into a leadership role was exhilarating and demanding. Welcome to leadership!

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." We've come a long way but we still have far to go.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Having successfully managed different products will put you in a great position to advise and support the product people who work for you. Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But product management at the lower levels is still an individual sport, while product leadership at the highest levels is a team sport. They learned how to play the team sport called product leadership. But once they see you have valuable insights and ideas, your leadership will rock. Are you ready to make the shift?

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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.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 25, 2022

How can product leaders develop a positive mental health culture to ensure that their teams are supported and performing at their best? [.] Read more » The post How to develop a positive mental health culture as a product leader appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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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. As AI tools become more common, product leaders face new challenges in managing teams, fostering innovation, and maintaining a positive work environment.

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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

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. No one liked the product.

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

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. It’s important for me to point out that effective leadership must be based on the intention to support the people you want to lead, not on the desire to control or manipulate anyone. To make things worse, some of the stakeholders might be more senior than you.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Introduction: The Product Manager’s Unique Challenge Product managers often find themselves in a unique position: responsible for a company’s future success but lacking the formal authority to implement changes directly. Be: Embody the leadership qualities that align with your values and organizational culture.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2023

6 Leaderships Lessons and 5 Tools for Creating a Positive Environment Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

Our guest, Kenton Hansen, was in that position at Roll20 three years ago. 1:34] What was going on at Roll20 that cased leadership to hire their first product person? It was a time of targeted growth, and leadership was excited about growing the platform. I treated the position as a consultancy role.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. During this journey, some of the key challenges that I faced are follows: I found it very difficult to define the positioning statement for the product.

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