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. In business, any path to an endpoint is put into perspective when we know the route we’ve traveled and how we got to where we are now.

Product Research

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Amazon's Integrated Leadership Principles: Instead of having a dedicated behavioral round, Amazon weaves 1–2 Leadership Principle (LP) questions into almost every interview session. Throughout each round, you’ll be expected to demonstrate customer obsession, ownership, and bias for action.

Data Visualization

Arkenea

MAY 29, 2025

In our podcast series Practice Pulse , we dive into the world of healthcare operations, technology, and leadership, featuring exclusive interviews with healthcare industry experts. We uncover the strategies, innovations, and real world insights that help medical practices streamline operations, enhance patient care, and drive growth.

Healthcare

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Remember: Collaboration requires leadership. This is particularly important for date-driven products like smartphones that must be ready for Christmas sales or a travel app that has to be updated before the summer holidays start. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features,” said Steve Jobs. Have the courage to say “no”.

Roadmap

Arkenea

AUGUST 5, 2025

.” RealTime Implementation and Support Excellence Mobile Accessibility: Robust mobile applications enable on-the-go access for multi-site operations: “The mobile app is really great when you have multiple sites and [are] traveling.”

Research Software

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We talk to Peek’s CPO Navya Rehani Gupta about the communication initiatives she instigated to see the travel company successfully through the pandemic. Read more » The post The key is communication: Leading a travel product through the pandemic appeared first on Mind the Product.

Travel

Product Talk

JANUARY 10, 2024

We had plans to travel, to ski and mountain bike, and to devote some time to our learning goals. Instead of traveling and recharging, we spent a lot of time at home recovering. I am considering going to Oslo in October for Y Oslo , but otherwise won’t be traveling for events. But alas, the year didn’t go as planned.

Feedback Software

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on.

Weak Development Team

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Or, the person must adhere to onerous policies, especially for travel, to get reimbursed. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

Leadership

Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Table of Contents What does culture-driven leadership mean? The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. What does culture-driven leadership mean? Final thoughts.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

MAY 25, 2020

Last year I was at a product management conference in Orlando and the keynote speaker discussed leadership at Disney. Last year I was at a product management conference in Orlando and the keynote speaker discussed leadership at Disney. The strategies the Disney Head of Innovation used to bring products customers love to life.

User Testing

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

He joined Amazon in 1998—four years after its founding—and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team. For two of his years at Amazon, Colin was Chief of Staff to Jeff Bezos, AKA “Jeff’s shadow,” during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff.

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Product manager of Airbnb, and leadership wants you to ponder on the idea to allow guests to book cars through the Airbnb Platform. It can be an Airbnb add-on to stay Homes and experiences (curated travel experience). How would you ensure building this new idea would be surely aligned with the Airbnb scalability vision?

Product Research

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Lending her insights is Eleanor Hasler, Senior Product Manager at Impala, a travel company making it simple to sell hotel rooms. After that, I was hiring for a product leadership role, and I loved every product person I met. After that, I was hiring for a product leadership role, and I loved every product person I met.

Product Management

The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

I’ve spent most of my career working in the travel industry. What I have learned is travel is a highly resilient sector?—?people first there has to be the ability to travel, but that is meaningless without the confidence to travel. So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership?

Leadership

Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

Product Management

The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

If the wider strategy is unclear, high-level outcomes should be discussed with leadership first. Her product management experience spans sectors such as retail and travel. The high-level direction (e.g. focus on cutting costs or on increasing revenue) should reflect the wider strategic direction of the company or department.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A look into how digital product teams practice a more flexible approach that rethinks traditional development techniques. Continue reading on Product Coalition »

Travel

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Product Leadership. Kate has more than 20 years product management, leadership and marketing experience with the likes of Yahoo! Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant.

Analytic Tools

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 6, 2016

She has worked all over the US, Europe and Asia, including traveling to Japan more than 100 times to help Japanese companies globalize. I’ve worked with a lot of companies doing leadership development programs. I’ve worked with a lot of companies doing leadership development programs. It’s really changed over the years.

Feedback Software

Roman Pichler

MAY 1, 2019

Additionally, reduce the amount of travel that takes place in order to develop the product, particularly flights as these cause high carbon emissions. Personally, I’ve found that video calls can often make it unnecessary to travel. That’s not only good for the planet; it also helps your company save money.

Artificial Inteligence

Roman Pichler

MAY 1, 2019

Additionally, reduce the amount of travel that takes place in order to develop the product, particularly flights as these cause high carbon emissions. Personally, I’ve found that video calls can often make it unnecessary to travel. That’s not only good for the planet; it also helps your company save money.

Artificial Inteligence

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. What can I say, product leadership is a tough role to play. Now, I love traveling with my family, and my mother usually plans great trips, but having to decide on the spot with little to no information made me nervous. I am burning out.”

Leadership

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

My parents love traveling and we traveled a lot as a family over the years. I couldn’t imagine traveling this way, and potentially missing on things that we could have done had we just planned ahead of time. But at the deeper level, it also instills trust in leadership. For all I knew, that’s how you plan a trip abroad.

Roadmap

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. Context would be externally the travel industry and travelers in Latam, and internally our vision and mid-term strategy.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Biggest Product Management cultures in South and Latin America: Marketplace and Travel. Biggest Product Management cultures in South and Latin America: Marketplace and Travel. Challenges around culture and localisation. Links mentioned in this episode. Follow Guido on LinkedIn and Medium.com. Startups: Mural and Tiendanube.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s more, the product people would occasionally visit the development site, and development group members would travel to product management from time to time. Despite its focus on reducing travel expenses, most people involved the development effort were collocated at one site in the US. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s more, the product people would occasionally visit the development site, and development group members would travel to product management from time to time. Despite its focus on reducing travel expenses, most people involved the development effort were collocated at one site in the US. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan.

Weak Development Team

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The travel tech giant just touched down with a brilliant new vision. Did you miss it? It’s arguably their first one ever. Let’s take a look Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

Vision

Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Southwest Airlines was able to align employees on providing a cheap, no-frills experience for customers by hiring people who bought into its vision of air travel. A great example of actionable principles held in common is Amazon’s Leadership Principles. It takes deliberate effort and cultivation from leadership, and from you.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 30, 2018

We intuitively feel that we are choosing the route, direction and speed of our journey, and even the type of car we’re traveling in. Detached from the leadership; removed from the sense of mission. We all like to think we’re the drivers of our own life. The truth is, however, that most of us are mere passengers in our own life journey.

Travel

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

She thinks product leadership will be a hot topic for the next couple of years, citing Joff Redfern who talks about how to build the perfect shipyard, “whereas currently we’re all obsessing about how to build the ships”. “We will do the leadership event in our old and beloved venue, the Katholische Akedemie.

Consulting

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

Our leadership team is fully engaged in the active management of our response during this challenging period. In addition to our temporary work-from-home policies, we suspended business travel and visitors to our offices beginning on March 5. We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely.

Customer Experience

Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

and got to build a team which transformed, as Christina put it, “a bunch of browse-based properties into search-based properties, things like travel and autos”. When I left Zynga, I tried a bunch of things: travel writing, culinary school, advising food startups… none suited me. And it was OKRs that eventually led her to teaching.

Technical Review

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2021

If the notion of managing distributed, cross-functional teams dumps cortisol into your bloodstream, I assure you it’s merely a matter of translating the leadership skills you already have to a new environment. As people feel comfortable gathering and traveling again, bring your distributed team together for in-person events, too.

Technical Review

Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times. Have you been travelling lately? On the positive side, when done correctly, it will not only remove the problems. You might say, for example: Hi Joe, it’s been a while.

Construction