Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. They’re also critical to the success of product management, product marketing and sales.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH ” Download the eBook to read the interviews here or watch the full webinar here. About Jessi: Jessi is a director, technical product manager, SAP Concur. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Most of us try to avoid arguments with our peers.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We work with you as partners by sharing product leadership best practices. I'm not very good at Product Management. Pretty wow so far."

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

But on the other hand, they need you there, and if you give too much weight to their leadership you can’t become their partner. That’s not the leadership team that they need. A CEO once shared with me that in his relationship with product leadership, he feels that he is giving much more than he is getting. That’s a fact.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. He is a marketing professor that taught one of the courses I took as part of my MBA, almost 20 years ago. We constantly need to enroll others to follow us although we have no formal leadership there. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. The market is going through a time of uncertainty and slowdown. So make sure you keep your eyes and ears on the market and adjust all of your plans according to this huge wave of change that is coming at you. Your customers are going through this as well.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2024

Principles are a very powerful tool in product leadership. A lot of it is due to leadership changes, or a major shift that companies realized they needed to make as part of their 2024 planning. That’s when I recommend having a discussion with leadership on the principles you want to follow. These could be related to focus (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The quote is attributed to Ford himself for the first time in a letter sent to the UK publication Marketing Week in 2001: “Being market-led implies being led by the consumer — and consumers are bad at coming up with innovations (Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” springs to mind…).”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes tough market conditions, but it can also be an opportunity. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. They see it as sales and marketing’s responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. At work, things are much more complex.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Everything I said above holds for your other leadership relationships as well. You don’t need formal leadership rights to make an impact. You don’t need formal leadership rights to make an impact. Image by Wooden Earth Ltd E.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. What can I say, product leadership is a tough role to play. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on October 4, 2021.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Another strategic note about startups that almost goes without saying if you follow my writing, is that before you have product-market fit, finding it should be your only focus.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He also helps middle market and scrappy companies generate new product strategies for significant, sustainable growth. It comes down to making sure there is a product leadership team. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. You keep learning new things about the market, and delivery always takes longer than planned. But at the deeper level, it also instills trust in leadership. the highest one?

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s hard to get stakeholders fist-pumping over things like… be the market leader execute the most payment transactions pay more employees than all other payroll systems combined to be the leading provider of… to make the best product in [category] If your product vision resembles any of the above, you won’t be feeling the love from any direction.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

But the truth is that even if you do need these big ideas in order to demonstrate leadership (and even that is not necessarily true ), the ideas themselves never show up in a void, out of nowhere. But a search engine wasn’t a suitable product for Twiggle’s target market. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. One of the common situations where this conflict arises is when you take a new product leadership role. Continue Sharing as You Build the Strategy To build your leadership and trust, you need to communicate consistently and frequently.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. In PLG, the product (deliverables) takes the heavy lifting of marketing and sales upon itself. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused It was easy for me to define myself as a leadership coach, although with the few companies that I work with personally I also do quite a lot of transformational coaching. Stay tuned.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Executive Certificate is geared toward senior-level professionals with experience in a product leadership role. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.) in the product process.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an What are our goals?

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How about Mailchimp’s All-in-One Marketing Platform and Salesforce? Still, when it comes down to it, they fundamentally help their customers accomplish the same thing: automate marketing. Technology companies, in particular, adopted these points of differentiation to gain market share. Very little.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market. If so, fantastic!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Customer Success (CS) leadership roles can be hard to define. As an emergent position in a highly competitive industry, jumping into a leadership role can be intimidating. He’s combined that insight from interviews with the top search firms in SaaS to put together an ultimate guide to growing your CS leadership career.

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, and other teams to align customer success objectives with overall company goals. Apply this knowledge to shape the future of our customer success function, driving innovation and thought leadership. Proficiency in utilizing customer success analytics and reporting tools.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Backed by a rich business background, he took over the sales and marketing departments and started to put them on an operational pace that created stability and transparency. The softer side of product management by the way is very different from the softer side of product leadership. At this point, L. If you think about L. ‘s

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Taking risks is an inherent part of product leadership. There is risk in prioritizing by fire drills and there is risk in not reacting fast enough to the feedback you get from the market. Even if you feel the gain is clear (shorter time to market, for example), take the time to explain what happens if you don’t take the risk.

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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. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. Is the Market Ready for You? The answer is that the market wasn’t ready.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Nowadays, I’m coaching others to not make the same mistakes I did.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. This also fits nicely into your desire to give them enough leadership room. for example, we are working on a plan to enter a new market?—?or

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. The reason you wanted to hire a product leader and not a product manager was that you needed someone who can partner with you on strategy and leadership, not just someone who can manage the work. Hiring a product leader is never easy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on April 18, 2023. Here’s how.

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