The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes crises.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash “I am in a new product lead role and I am stopping a launch because there is no strategy. The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. Strategy is hard. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. Once you created a first draft that you are happy with, it’s time to bring it to the market and iterate according to the feedback you get. But how can you test a strategy? My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

As a product leader, is this a skill you already master? was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Still, he was one of the best hires I made in this area and he turned out to be a product star.

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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. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

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. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. For example, one of the most innovative ideas I had throughout my career was Twiggle’s product.

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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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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 focused on helping product leaders thrive and lead the product organization effectively as well as the product strategy in the right direction Transformational coaching?—?working

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Should you hire a senior product manager? Who Should You Hire?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. thepaintedsquare from Unsplash As a board member at ProductX  — the largest product conference in Israel — I met last week with a guest speaker to prepare his talk at the upcoming conference. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool. Photo by Jessica Lewis

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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. But when it comes to work, and especially strategy related decisions, let me be very clear: FOMO is not a good reason to pivot. You need to create your vision and define your strategy accordingly?—?simply

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. There are many ways to crisp up your strategy. It always helps.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Here are three things that if you include in your product requirements would make your life easier and help your developers deliver on what you really intended, not on what you told them to build. I didn’t call him that at the time, but he taught me so much and helped me shape my leadership style and principles.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it They needed something else.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When the CEO sets the strategy, what is your role as a product leader? How can you be strategic when the strategy is set by someone else? When we were working on building their strategic roadmap, he asked me a great question: “why do I need to start with the strategy, and specifically when presenting to management?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization.

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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. It’s All About Leadership Last but not least, prioritizing at the right level not only helps you think, but also helps you explain how you think to others?—?your

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

While it’s true generally as an approach to life (in psychology it’s called an internal locus of control), today I want to talk about its implication when you create your strategy. Strategy Is a Choice It is very tempting to approach strategy as if there is a right answer that we only need to find. But strategy isn’t as simple.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. 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 March 25, 2020.

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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. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. Here’s why and how.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time. It is the separation that helps you sharpen your strategy. How detailed?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

You have a strategy, you are just unable to make progress with it. The alternative is not having a solid product strategy, and that’s a debt much harder to close. Becoming the Gatekeeper of the Strategy Strategic product leadership is a continuous effort. It’s not a one-time thing.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Make It Easy for Them to Help You In the CPO Bootcamp , the participants submit every week a piece of their product strategy for feedback. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an I’m a big fan of MS-Word, but for this specific task, it is much easier for me to work with google docs.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

But the first thing Twiggle’s founders asked me to do was to decide which product we are going to create with the amazing technology that they have built so far. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit. And they go far beyond the product itself.

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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. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. But it really pays off when done right.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It impacted everything from the depth of the underlying technology to the product itself, the go-to-market strategy, and the entire business model. I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors.

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