Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. A great way to discover an effective product strategy is to capture your initial ideas, using a tool like my Product Vision Board , and then systematically correct and refine them. Figure 3 illustrates how this can be done.

Systems Review

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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. Previously, in order to avoid becoming a bottleneck, I could review only high-stakes communications, like emails to the CEO or all-hands presentations.

User Testing

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., Ask AI to assemble everything into a simple presentation that energizes stakeholders. Here’s the honest truth.

Product Management

People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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.” Develop Adaptive Leadership Skills: Be flexible and ready to pivot when needed. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Technical Review

The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

If stakeholders feel heard, theyre more likely to buy into your vision and collaborate. Your job is to align everyone around a shared vision. Own Your Mistakes: When things go sideways, take responsibility, communicate openly, and present a path forward. Lets identify what works best for your team.

Customer Feedback

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

Strategy

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Share People-First Leadership 2. Presentation skills! If you’re looking to elevate your public speaking or refine a presentation, Abdo’s the one to guide you. Your teams will see leadership backing the change, learn to speak the same language, and work better together. What else can be improved with practice?

Product Research

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 15, 2025

After two decades leading product teams and coaching countless PMs, I've discovered something surprising: The issue isn't your strategic thinking abilities - it's navigating the unspoken rules that shape product leadership. Three competing executive visions. If your boss is analytical, present data. She brought needed clarity.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2024

And sometimes, if you don’t have a strategic roadmap, the CEO might want one ASAP , for example, before a presentation to the board or an important customer. If the CEO needs a presentation for Tuesday you need to have it ready for Tuesday. So, on the one hand, you have to compromise on something.

Healthcare

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. Someone who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.

Research Software

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. When teams use different systems, cohesion is lost These challenges are not due to lack of effort – they stem from a lack of shared structure and systems.

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

Systems Review

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2025

You typically also get a take-home ML case study to present.  Product management  The product management interview at Discord includes five rounds: data, design sense, product sense, leadership, and a case study. You’ll also be expected to ask high-level questions about company vision. 

Reporting Tools

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That experience taught me a key lesson about influence: Leadership isn’t a one-person show—it’s a social process. The Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) framework from the Center for Creative Leadership is a game-changer for making an impact - no matter your role.

Feedback Software

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2025

For many SaaS and software leaders, the pivot to remote work in 2020 presented an exciting chance to re-evaluate how their companies truly operate. If “Zoom fatigue” and the constant pressure of being “always on” sound familiar, it’s time to explore a fundamentally different approach to work.

Feedback Software

Gainsight

JANUARY 27, 2025

While we wanted to give gifts to every CM in the world, we chose CMs in our network at random to select a gift that speaks to their personal interests, ensuring that each present is thoughtful and meaningful. Their commitment, creativity, and leadership keep our community thriving and inspired.

Customer Experience

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. Strong team leadership: 5+ years of direct PM management experience. Image] Who would be the best fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It requires a strategic vision, a robust execution plan, and most importantly, alignment with broader business objectives. While GenAI presents clear benefits for data analysis and document processing, its unpredictable nature requires strict guardrails. Digital transformation efforts are 5.8

Reporting Tools

Business Acumen Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

Yet, considering my early tastes in business leadership, it was obvious that, while the school of hard knocks hadn’t necessarily been kind to me, at least it had been talkative, and I had somehow managed to take a pretty good set of notes. It’s a way to establish trust with your teammates and inspires others to work toward a shared vision.

Vision

Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

There are high potential leadership development programs But if we look a little bit more deeply into the organization, let’s assume all those great high potential people become the future C suite people, who’s gonna move into those next higher level jobs. I’m going through all this leadership training. A behavior.

Data Visualization

Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Recent geopolitical instability in the region has also raised concerns about business continuity and long-term engagement reliability, a risk that India with its stable democratic government and established IT policies doesn’t present. The region produces approximately 30,000 CS graduates annually compared to India’s 1.5

Reporting Tools

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

Vision

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. You may have an inflexible structure.

Artificial Inteligence

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.

Vision

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.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. Don’t be overly critical or judgmental; be present for them. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. Listen deeply and actively.

Agile

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. That’s particularly crucial when innovation is present, as this requires the ability to experiment, fail, and learn.

Reporting Tools

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?” However, this presents two new challenges for Product Leaders: How do you lead a group of leaders?

Leadership

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

Weak Development Team

Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership. Conscious leadership involves becoming more aware of your interior world—your thoughts, emotions, and biases. While optics matter (how you present your work is important), don’t let them overshadow the work itself.

Vision

Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? If there’s any problem in alignment between the product team and senior leaders, that’s a better problem to have than leadership not being involved in product strategy at all. Along with this is the vision—the big picture of your purpose.

Product Strategy

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

User Testing

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To capture the portfolio and product strategy, I prefer to work with the Portfolio Vision Board and Product Vision Board. This does not imply, however, that only the leadership team determines this strategy. To formulate an outcome-based product roadmap, I like to use the GO Product Roadmap.

Research Software

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. This sometimes can happen unknowingly, for example when product managers always take on the role of presenting to executives, leading meetings, giving demos, or announcing results. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock).

Engineering

Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

Traditional strategic planning is too anchored in extrapolating present-day norms into the future. It’s also a way of thinking that allows you to take the past and the present out of the equation. You frequently revisit the vision and initiatives and adjust along the way. 16:15] How do we define the time horizon?

Product Research

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.

Vision