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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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How Product Management & Product Marketing Lead From a Position of Strength

Product Management University

That brings us to the subject of influence among product management and product marketing teams. And that market knowledge is the key to leading from a position of strength. What if product management and product marketing were more knowledgeable on the market collectively than all other disciplines combined?

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How I Survived the Lifestyle of a Product Manager as an Introvert

The Product Coalition

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. It might seem like introverts aren’t suited for the life of product managers, but that’s not true.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Do you have your own Product in Practice you’d like to share?

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Powerful Product Positioning: Follow These Three Rules

Product Management University

Powerful product positioning usually boils down to the best story, which is not always the best product. Your products have no relevance until you can tell buyers why they need them — in their language! Your products have no relevance until you can tell buyers why they need them — in their language!

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The Leadership Side of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

Product Management University

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. As an individual contributor, i.e., product manager.

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Sales, Positioning and the Nobody Zone

Product Management University

” Good sales positioning and discovery techniques can help you understand true buyer motivations so you don’t end up in the Nobody Zone. This stage is where your company messaging and solution positioning can fully engage buyers or push them away. There’s an old saying: “buyers are liars!”