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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

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. Other diseases are pivot-itis and obsessive sales disorder. Whenever your vision becomes disconnected from your actions, product diseases set in.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Distilling the 40,000-foot vision. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Distilling the 40,000-foot vision. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.