Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. In preparing for startup competitions, she initially focused on memorizing answers to potential questions, consulting 42 former judges.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A vision distills a lot of content in a few words, like poetry. A vision is critical to ensuring an organization reaches maximal productivity by keeping its employees aligned and focused on a common goal. Yet, a vision is a thing of few words. The same is true for a vision. Work with those who do.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Product Leadership Forum is a chance for senior product professionals to discuss the challenges they face in a safe environment. By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. Then give them space and time to build their own model of leadership.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI affects workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership. In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI impacts workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership strategies, offering insights for product managers in this evolving landscape.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

Innosight is an innovation management consultancy founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson. You frequently revisit the vision and initiatives and adjust along the way. Johnson and Johnson’s pharmaceuticals division created a vision by looking 12 years into the future and envisioning a world without disease.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. Learn more about Steve’s Lean Program Consulting. The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. 6:50] Pipeline.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Greg shares an example from his consulting work with Vertex, a tax software company. This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Introduction Your organization’s survival depends on its ability to successfully expand from a single product to multiple products.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They spoke on the topic of leadership, and unsurprisingly it was a fascinating and enlightening discussion, with a lot of great insights gleaned from their respective careers. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2019

Many articles have been written on this subject, most of them either by product consultants or people holding one of the above titles. A product vision is the most crucial thing for a product leader to work on. Does this encapsulate what you think about product leadership? What is the job of a product leader? Detailed Results.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2021

When you can create one product vision to serve a customer segment. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. And at some point, from funding projects to funding teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

When you look inside these stories, you often find a corporate explorer at the center of them—someone who has the vision, commitment, and passion to drive it through. Our second book, Corporate Explorer Handbook , says that as management consultants and academics we don’t know all the answers.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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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. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If The success of a product is reliant on strong, integrated teams that work together to bring the product’s vision to life. What I was looking at was a product vision and a roadmap and I was like I want that job. Discovering product management.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

This can include internal teams, compliance specialists, AI ethics boards, and sustainability consultants. If stakeholders feel heard, theyre more likely to buy into your vision and collaborate. Your job is to align everyone around a shared vision. Lets identify what works best for your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. But it’s important for both sales and product leadership to remember you can’t “table stakes” your way to a dominant market position. You need to differentiate.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Huge consultancies and one-off consultants have been paid to implement a great manifesto as a repeatable process, not taking the size, stage, growth, culture, and capabilities into consideration. It’s time to change all that by aligning teams for direct connection to a shared mission/vision and the strategy it serves.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2023

At the time, I had already decided to pivot my career and become a product coach, with the intention of launching a consulting firm. Leadership support is key ‍ The success of any transformation is intrinsically linked to the level of support and trust you’ll get from the organisation’s leadership.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. You need to create your vision and define your strategy accordingly?—?simply But don’t fall in love with your vision, because it will surely change.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He is an internationally sought-after customer experience consultant who transfers his knowledge of exceptional business practices in ways that develop joyful and productive workplaces with a focus on the customer. 19:02] How can product managers move into leadership roles in their organization?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For innovation hubs to be successful, the leadership must clearly articulate the vision and create space within that vision for innovation to happen. Disruptive innovation was a theory put forward by Clayton Christensen, the famous American academic and business consultant. Gartner is a tech research and consulting firm.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2019

She is a partner at Upfront Work, a product management consultancy, and has spent more than 10 years developing and manufacturing innovative consumer products with Fortune 500 companies, including Foot Locker, Craftsman (Sears), Johnson & Johnson and others. Maybe you invite them to present to leadership or lift them up in another way.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Southwest Airlines was able to align employees on providing a cheap, no-frills experience for customers by hiring people who bought into its vision of air travel. It has shaped decisions in several teams I’ve worked with, and has been a valuable way to shape hiring standards in companies I’ve consulted with.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Being on the inside of a company as it takes off is a special kind of experience – and being in a product leadership position while that’s going on gives a unique viewpoint. That can provide a fuzzy vision of the future, which by the way may not be right, but it stops it all being chaos. and then a strategy (having a plan).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Starting a career as a UX consultant requires understanding the key steps, skills, and experiences needed for success. In this article, we will outline the typical journey for UX consultants, covering educational requirements, entry-level positions, potential advancements, and long-term opportunities. What does a UX consultant do?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 14, 2018

Being a leader involves creating vision and providing meaning to those you work with. It is the topic of Fred Kofman’s new book, The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership. It has to cascade from the leadership. Fred’s numerous posts and videos regarding leadership. He earned his Ph.D.

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