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. What can I say, product leadership is a tough role to play. I am burning out.” No wonder people are creating enemies along the way and burning out.

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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. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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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. Looking at long-term goals is definitely one of the things that make any strategy hard to build, but for product strategy that is not the hardest part.

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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. Kudos if you’re already there. Here’s the best part as it relates to your day-to-day.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Customer Success Leadership. Retention, Renewal, and Upsell Strategies. Customer Success Leadership. Retention, Renewal, and Upsell Strategies. 4 Strategies to Help Close Every Renewal During a Slowdown.

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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. heard my explanation and immediately said — ‘oh, you are doing product strategy’.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. But how can you test a strategy? Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels As I said in the first post of this series , product strategy starts with getting very detailed about what you are trying to do and why it would work.

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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. They want you to lead right away.

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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. The Unique Challenges of Managing Product Managers It starts with my guiding principle that every product manager needs to think about strategy. But how can you fully own something when your manager is also in charge of the strategy?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. Strategy is hard. an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on April 26, 2022. But now it’s time to make the hard decisions.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. 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.

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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. Product leadership deals with so many unknowns, that the absolute truth is not reachable in most cases.

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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 Stay tuned.

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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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role? One way to do so is as part of the CPO Bootcamp , where the participants learn the deep aspects of product strategy and get explicit guidance on building it for their own products. and crosses all domains. It is not an easy role?—?both

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. Another reason that product management is such a challenging role, especially as you grow into product leadership, is that the only way for us to deliver results is through the actions of other people. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool.

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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 You should.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of the customer account roadmap as the perfect blend of account strategy, execution tactics, and a metrics dashboard that simplifies everything for both the customer success manager and the customer. Step 3: Determine How the Obstacles Will be Removed This is your opportunity to bring some thought leadership to the table.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. 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. Even after the disease is contained, the resulting economic slowdown will stay here for much longer.

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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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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. The 12 lessons will cover the tactics, strategies and mindsets that underpin the 3 steps thinking. Where do I manage the roadmap?

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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. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp. I really wanted to coach and mentor and help people think, not take hands-on projects upon myself.

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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. But the strategy should still be on you. Who Should You Hire?

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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. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. Hiring a product leader is never easy. In most cases, you have never been in this position yourself before, so interviewing could be a challenge.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. But the point I want to make today isn’t about relationships, and still, that’s what the story is about.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

I didn’t call him that at the time, but he taught me so much and helped me shape my leadership style and principles. an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on February 10, 2021. Photo by Gin Patin from Pexels Early in my career, I had a mentor.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. When they present their product strategy to the teams, they’re asked to participate in the project.

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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 helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. 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 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 But at the deeper level, it also instills trust in leadership. This, too, helps build your leadership and the team’s confidence, in the times they need it most.

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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. These can be things related to the product or the strategy?—?for

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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. Here are 3 such examples.

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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. They only get worse until your entire strategy breaks into pieces.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY Sample Portfolio Vision “ To help our customers grow revenue, market share, wallet share and customer retention. When it comes to your portfolio strategy and product investment priorities, they should reflect the investment priorities of your target customers.

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