Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

As we settle into the New Year we’re already looking ahead to the product leadership forums on our 2020 MTP calendar. As our leadership forums are conducted under the Chatham House rule, you’ll not see any direct quotes from our forums. Apply to join our Leaders Program and be part of our exclusive leadership forums.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

As these skills form a large set, I like to divide them into three sub groups: strategic, tactical, and leadership capabilities, as the picture below shows. Leadership skills enable you to effectively guide the development team and lead the stakeholders, create an inspiring vision , and reach sustainable agreements , to name just a few.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it. Another key function of product leadership is to drive collaboration with other parts of the business. Book suggestion: Product Leadership.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Inspiring visions and strategies are particularly important when giving people a purpose.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The CEO needs to focus on the vision, then agree with the product leadership what the key areas of focus will be in order to deliver that vision – or at least move the needle significantly towards it. The post 4 Challenges That Get in the Way of Effective Product Leadership appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. Visions are About the Future. Good product visions should be emotional and look ahead three to five years.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). No Vision = no Intentional Culture. Your vision and its supporting culture shouldn’t be generic. It shouldn’t be for everyone.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? February Product Conferences. We are already halfway through the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have missed your chance at some quality conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If all your leadership team were somehow struck down with some weird leadership-seeking strain of virus what would happen in the office tomorrow, next week, or next month? What is the company’s mission statement or vision? Does the HR team know what direction your Product is going in?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Leadership during the COVID crisis. Use this time to figure out how you can best live out your mission, your vision. ” Don’t just be in lockdown mode.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

Big revolutionary changes – those are rare and you probably don’t need them every day; you need them once a year, to sort of shape the vision for the year. and at conferences across the US and Europe. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Quote of the Episode. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 6, 2019

In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career. And here’s the thing: over time, they actually train company leadership to be better!

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. My teams read all of these books, they do good trainings, they go to conferences, but they were lacking these tiny little details, and, to be honest, even I struggled. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

We had a group of new hires ready and excited to join Intercom the following Monday, expecting to meet lots of folks in the office, join brainstorming sessions in a conference room, and grab a nice cup of coffee or a cold beer at a local bar with their new teammates after work. They are: . Core business learnings.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

I get invited to speak at conferences. I also speak at industry conferences. I research and write scripts for my conference talks. Industry conferences: I only speak at two conferences a year. I get invited to dozens of conferences around the world. If you’d like me to speak at your conference, ask early.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07] A marketer or market research department can do it, or you can do it yourself by writing some surveys in a survey tool or interviewing people at a conference.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Admittedly he was joining after a disappointing spell in Italy, but his success with the Dutch champions, Ajax, with whom he won the Champions League four consecutive times, was heralded as the template for his vision at Crystal Palace. Instead you will be asked to implement your vision while making do with existing resources.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun, Author. So what are you waiting for?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2019

One of my favorite models is the “ GLE e model” which helps to craft a product vision. Here’s how I present the model, using Netflix as an example: Netflix Product Vision. Eventually, you’ll progress to big conferences. Last, help the audience to apply these models to their work. Then I feel I’m ready for large audiences.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Conference Tickets. Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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Gainsight

JANUARY 23, 2025

Gainsight recently announced that we were named a Leader in the first-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Success Management Platforms ; Gainsight was positioned highest on the Ability to Execute axis and furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. It became clear they werent there for the refreshmentsthey were there to meet each other.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

Sure the roadmap is a guide that delineates the product’s vision, hypothesis, outcomes, and direction, allowing teams and stakeholders to engage in the product’s progress over time. The why is what unites not just the team, but the whole company, around a shared vision. There I am, freshly dressed and looking right out of B school.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 21, 2017

After weeks of discussion with the product team, we’d hit the final stretch, and TK and I holed up for a few hours in a conference room to finalize my role at Uber. After a solid hour-long jam session, he’d say he had to leave to get on a conference call on China, and leave for another multi-hour meeting. It won me over.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. This vision outlines the long-term goals and impact the product aims to achieve.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Business of Software Conference USA 2019 Speaker Reading List. Here are the books that this year’s Business of Software Conference USA 2019 speakers say have had the biggest influence on their business lives, and what they are reading now. “I’m proof reading the Business of Software Conference USA 2019 attendee guide.

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Radical Product

APRIL 30, 2020

We’ve learned that it’s OK to start with a rough idea of the direction and discover your vision through iteration. Instead of using iteration to discover our vision, RPT means thinking about the change we want to bring to the world and then engineering our product as a mechanism to create that change. A good vision is not about you.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

As a staff engineer, a lot of your energy goes into cross-team collaboration for the vision and strategy. I’m an individual contributor (IC) and I’m not on any leadership track. But the thing is that, as you grow to higher roles as an IC, your reality blends a little bit with your leadership role.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

They threw me in a conference room and then proceeded to read me the riot act about how the calendar was just destroying their productivity and their credibility. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. Sorry, Facebook, but I just don’t use it as much.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved. The first draft of a roadmap shows your dream and vision for the product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 2, 2024

He is also an author of five web design books and a regular speaker at global conferences. Canva made contrarian but conviction-driven decisions like staying private longer, avoiding outside leadership hires, and building a Swiss Army Knife product when conventional wisdom favored single-purpose tools.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership. A director-level role in Product will require leadership experience. Set a vision.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We’ve already highlighted the Top 10 Product Talks from across our conferences and meetups, but not everyone wants to get up on stage to share, so now it’s time to look at the top 10 guest posts here on mindtheproduct.com. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap.

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2024

Enhance leadership skills, contribute to creating research frameworks and methodologies, and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams. Provides leadership and mentorship to the research team. Focus on strategic leadership, expand influence across departments, and drive innovation in research practices.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 12, 2021

It made a lot of sense in terms of the vision and strategy. You’ve probably got a couple of different apps that are open – one might be solving your video conference needs, and one might be handling your team’s messaging needs. Just don’t get too blown out into the vision of science fiction and all that.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A large part of their success can be attributed to effective cross-functional data leadership. At this year’s Amplify conference, Maura Church, director of data science at Patreon, shared how her team empowers the entire organization to make smart business decisions. 3 Keys to Strong Cross-Functional Data Leadership.

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