Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks’ expansion into video streaming.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. OKRs are a goal-setting framework individuals, teams, and organizations use to define measurable goals and track their outcomes.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. In Leadership. 5-Second summary.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. Context: the most important tool to empower your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. Identify these users and reach out, asking that they write a review or grant you a video interview you can embed on your landing pages or social media.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I could go on about the very different narratives of leadership that are told nowadays—carrying themes like narcissism, greed, materialism, workaholism, sociopathy, mental illness, and others—but those have been well documented elsewhere.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Why Events Matter to Your Team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Why Events Matter to Your Team.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. For example, I’m a sharer of information and often try out the strategies I read about which resonate with people-first product leadership. Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership".

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? How would you describe your role in coaching and career development? Tell me about a few people on your team and the career development plans you created with them. How do you balance feature development and technical debt?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Strengths/Weaknesses). Under times of duress, a leader must act decisively and effectively.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. Not just from you to your team, but from them to you, and to each other. What is this data telling us?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Buckle up, here come my principles!

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations and asks how teams and companies can be more accountable in the future. While no one can control and plan everything that will happen, what can product teams do today to mitigate risk?

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. Before this rule was added, occasionally, when a team or individual found themselves with some extra time, they would remove an easier-to-remove flag. I heard of teams purposely keeping easy-to-remove flags in the codebase as placeholders for the next flags they needed to add.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Your product and engineering teams are fighting fires constantly and do not have the bandwidth to think about the future. When your teams are too busy trying to patch up the existing product to do proper product discovery on new directions or innovations, your software is in danger of stagnating. Menus become convoluted.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

The questions keep coming in and it can feel great to help move your team forward by making the decisions, but they quickly pile up and leave you with no time to consider the bigger picture. A shared understanding of your customers, problems, and vision helps your whole team make the myriad of day-to-day decisions involved in product.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations and asks how teams and companies can be more accountable in the future. While no one can control and plan everything that will happen, what can product teams do today to mitigate risk?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

A leadership story of Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Given that product strategy provides product teams with so much guidance, why does it seem like your product strategy is more reactive, and is that ok? Guides your product decisions.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 14, 2017

Before Cooper, Nate has held product and design leadership positions at StarMine, Thomson Reuters, and BuildZoom. As a consultancy Cooper leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership. The question instead is what is the difference in the ROI of Bad or Ignorant Design vs Good Design.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Louis: How do you define leadership?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. On the tactical front, we talked about the good and bad sides of data.

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