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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. Negative motivation : explain to them that if they don’t grow, something bad will happen. don’t always find it easy to try new things or challenge themselves.

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Finding Your Sweet Spot When Managing Product Managers

The Product Coalition

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

for good and bad. 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 Marty said that anyone in the product team needs to get coaching, including the leaders themselves. A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

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…).”