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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Building the Foundation for Product Vision This activity serves as a bridge between problem validation and product vision development. By identifying and validating solutions before creating a product vision, product managers ensure they’re building on solid ground rather than assumptions.

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Overcoming Challenges in Stakeholder Management: Strategies for Navigating High-Stakes Decisions

The Product Guy

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. If a certain feature or initiative is expected to take longer than leadership would like, explain the reasons behind the delay.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Coalitions, Not Consensus: The Leadership Skill Product Managers Overlook

The Product Guy

You need a coalition shared purpose, mutual trust, and real support behind your product vision. Because alignment isnt enough.

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Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)

Lenny Rachitsky

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. In any product, the user experience matters. Ensure that your product makes complex tasks simple for users, and remove barriers that might stop them from succeeding.

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

Basecamp exemplifies this approach by openly encouraging debate and dissent to refine their vision. Stay tuned to find out how to take control of your products vision and strategy. When everyone agrees too quickly, its a sign that innovation has been sacrificed for comfort. Spoiler alertthey wont.

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Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Lenny Rachitsky

Dogfooding as a leadership practice: Sachin personally drives and delivers monthly (more than 700 trips total). Hybrid marketplace vision for autonomy: Uber divested its in-house AV unit and now partners with over 15 AV companies. This motto is the one he drills into his kids too.