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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ It is therefore called assigned leadership.[

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The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy

Roman Pichler

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

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Improve Your Presentations and Tell Better Stories as A PM

The Product Coalition

You can categorise presenters or storytellers into two groups — one has a large impact on the audience, and one often doesn’t. Some presenters relay information. Great presenters change behaviour. Once I realised this, I saw it everywhere. It’s likely you produced far better work when you were truly bought in.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. Trevor explains, “The leadership team felt like discovery was ‘taking too long.’

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. He'll share insights into what he, as an executive, looks for in a roadmap and presentation.

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Inter-Women Presents: Karen and Leandra on leadership

Intercom, Inc.

They spoke on the topic of leadership, and unsurprisingly it was a fascinating and enlightening discussion, with a lot of great insights gleaned from their respective careers. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others.

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

Only four months after I joined, I gave a presentation in our annual sales kickoff about how to deal with things that our competitors are saying about us. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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