Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We’ve all had the experience of presenting to the leadership team — but what do they say about you when you leave the room? We talked with experienced product and boardroom veteran, Tanya Cordrey about all of this [.] What’s it like to work at that level? And how do you get promoted to the C-suite?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya Cordrey, Non-Executive Director Clarks and Founder of Granary Square. Almost 20 years ago, Ben Horowitz wrote that good product teams know “the market, the product, the product line, and the competition well”, and this is just as true today as it was then. Every product team has good ideas. Here’s Part 1.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

These product managers tend to believe they have all the answers, that they produce the best solutions and designs, and that their teams should just do what they’re told. Truly successful product leaders instead embrace their lack of authority and lead their teams and the wider company through communication, vision, and influence.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

As the team make clear at the outset — this is not a book about how to be a good product manager. If you’ve already made the leap to managing a team of product managers then here you’ll find a series of tools and techniques to help you become the leader of that team which can take them on to even bigger and better things.

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Books Leadership User Testing Product Research 85

Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

As the team make clear at the outset — this is not a book about how to be a good product manager. If you’ve already made the leap to managing a team of product managers then here you’ll find a series of tools and techniques to help you become the leader of that team which can take them on to even bigger and better things.

Books 70

Books Leadership User Testing Product Research 70