The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control. PMs are not mere “task managers”; they are the custodians of a product’s vision. Far from being a reign, it’s a balancing act, often under pressure and scrutiny from every direction.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This openness encouraged deeper discussions within the team and helped clarify the project’s direction, ultimately aligning everyone on the vision. Closing contracts as founders not only builds your confidence but also equips you with the insights needed to effectively train your future sales hires.

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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. And they can continue enhancing their skills together without time-consuming training sessions. Our team’s performance, productivity, and NPS have all reached all-time highs.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For product managers: Clear alignment between product vision and execution is essential. Even with the right specifications, execution may fall short due to poor team performance, lack of resources, or insufficient training. For product managers: Closing this gap requires strong cross-functional leadership.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Before OpenAI, Karina was at Anthropic, where she led post-training and evaluation work for Claude 3 models, created a document upload feature with 100,000 context windows, and contributed to numerous other innovations.

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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. Sales also participates in training sessions to learn how to position the freemium offer in conversations with prospects. Make this work visible too.

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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. You need to watch for blind spots and biases in the model training.

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Gainsight

APRIL 16, 2025

Theres something that happens when you sit in a post-sale leadership seat long enough. Thats what we tapped into in our recent fireside chat with Sandi Lin and Nick Mehta around the recent acquisition and expanding the need for training. You start thinking in functions. In roadmaps. In metrics. Its not one product. Its not one team.

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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.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and his vision for the future of the company. Beyond First-Mover Advantage: Google’s AI Strategy Google’s leadership in AI began with groundbreaking innovations like Transformers, yet competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft are catching up.  Google C.E.O.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 18, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Pragmatic Institute —Industry‑recognized product, marketing, and AI training and certifications Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer of experiences and devices at Microsoft, (..)

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It requires a strategic vision, a robust execution plan, and most importantly, alignment with broader business objectives. Dont hop on the AI hype train without a clear strategy Pat Sheridan, CEO of Modus Create , advises that AI should augment and support existing digital initiatives, not be an isolated investment.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

As an art student, you’re not a master of one style, but you’re trained in many, along with the theory behind them. You can also take the lead in organising and facilitating workshops with internal stakeholders — whether it’s to define proto-personas or align on a product vision. The difference was time. 22–27 (4) Russell L.

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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. Even regional and mid-sized banks have started deploying AI for automation and analytics.

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Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

My journey through corporate leadership has shown that influence isn’t about titles but about connection and purpose – a lesson I’m passing on for you to apply in your career. Many of you who know me and my approach to training emerging leaders is to go beyond the “what” to the “how.” Some say you need a vision.

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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. We customize our training to fit every corporate environment.

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Gainsight

MAY 29, 2025

Onboarding time dropped by 33%, time-to-value by 20%, and training engagement jumped 55%. She built the vision, rolled out the tools, and aligned the team directly to revenue. Her leadership helped reframe CS as a strategic growth driver. Engaged users were more likely to renew.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Arkenea’s unique position, combining US-based leadership with elite Indian development capabilities creates an unmatched advantage for businesses seeking quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. The post Best Countries To Outsource Software Development: Why India Reigns appeared first on.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management. . Listen on the podcast channel of your choice The post From Vision to Impact: Innovate Like a Pro! Michelle Felice-Steele on Product Management Success appeared first on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training.

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Business Acumen Institute

MAY 13, 2025

Developing strong business acumen helps HR professionals become trusted advisors, secure a strategic role, gain respect, and provide credible leadership within the organization. tailoring recruitment and training to enhance the customer experience) and improve employee engagement. Claim yours today.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2022

Read more » The post Train your product team’s brain to embrace optimism and pessimism appeared first on Mind the Product. High performing teams acknowledge the role of both optimism and pessimism and create systems of work that exploit their benefits equally.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management.. Listen on the podcast channel of your choice The post From Vision to Impact: Innovate Like a Pro! Michelle Felice-Steele on Product Management Success appeared first on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She guides product leaders through defining their personal product vision then taking the right steps to make it a reality. Connection—help people feel connected to each other and the larger mission and vision of the company. Leadership is what you are doing that makes people follow you. Then you do it together.

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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. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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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. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. Product vision is an inspirational goal that describes the positive change that the product will bring about.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations. Please check that out using your favorite podcast app by searching for Advance Leadership Conversations. Useful links: Advance Leadership Conversations. Innovation Quote.

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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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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?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? The best-case scenario is an organization that has a disciplined strategy process between leadership and product managers. [14:24] Download the framework.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The more difficult part is getting stakeholders energized and on board the proverbial train. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s worth noting that PDMA is a volunteer-led organization and, like Susan, most of the people involved in its leadership have fulltime jobs in product roles yet find time to contribute to the professional association. I had some colleagues in New England who were involved with PDMA, and the PDMA New England chapter had disintegrated.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. A good vision answers: Whose world are you trying to change?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Creating a product vision of the future that’s awesome for everyone. It’s all about the why and crafting a compelling vision that explains the vision to the customer and the company. In those situations, the leadership will write the OKRs in isolation and hand them down without collaboration.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. My teams read all of these books, they do good trainings, they go to conferences, but they were lacking these tiny little details, and, to be honest, even I struggled. What’s the vision? That’s something where my PMs are not super trained right now. The vision is flight level one for me.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

He has 30+ years of professional experience in product and leadership roles across large and small organizations and dynamic startups, and now devotes his time to teaching and helping others improve. He co-authored “Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guide Book for Product Innovation Training and Certification.”

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