The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These numbers will come as the result of all the micro-decisions we make every day, consciously or not–it’s an implicit strategy (which through this exercise has been made explicit). . When they change too frequently, it’s a sign that some kind of short-term pressure is driving the top-level decision-makers, and that’s a problem.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 18, 2025

By embracing wonder, we can transform our leadership approach and unlock our team's full potential. This disconnect illustrates how following a "recipe" for leadership without truly considering and adapting to your team can lead to undesired results. Bringing Wonder to Your Organization How to infuse wonder into your leadership?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Three Pillars of Leadership: Know, Do, Be Effective product managers are more than just idea generators or task managers. To excel in this leadership role, focus on these three key areas: Know: Develop a comprehensive understanding of your product, market, and team dynamics. They are leaders who inspire and guide their teams.

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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. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2] To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. The next layer is the company’s leadership. I need to communicate with leadership so they can understand and buy into this new request or ask the right questions.”.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Our Training Courses With AI The biggest difference will be the breakout sessions, the hands-on exercises and associated artifacts. Then our clients can start using them to direct their products from more of a leadership position versus reactionary.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

(See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. Even if you might not feel that way at the time.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? He has held R&D leadership roles and founded Auxilium in 2002 to help companies improve their R&D and leadership practices and transform their new product development using Agile practices.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). This is a part of the series of leadership tips. All decisions are a form of power. We have a ton of personal power.

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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. If the leadership team doesn’t have a good understanding of how to engage with a product manager and what to expect from them, then any reason is enough reason to move on and find someone else.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

What problems are you trying to solve by doing this product envisioning exercise? I stuttered – currently our company goal is to increase marketplace liquidity, but this exercise is not directly tied to the goal. Before getting into any details, Andy asked – What is your company goal?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

No requires that you exercise your leadership. That leadership has always led to better outcomes. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #3: Use No As a Complete Sentence appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I hope you do, too.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

6] As the product manager or Scrum product owner, you should exercise emergent leadership within the product team, as I explain in more detail in the article Decoding Product Leadership. The role might be filled by a product coach, Scrum Master , or agile coach. [5]

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. – Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” This doesn’t mean we can’t commit to outcomes.

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Nulab

JULY 21, 2021

You can read dozens of management books and watch hundreds of TED talks on leadership , but if you don’t get some hands-on experience, then you’ll be missing out (and probably sink pretty fast when faced with a real-life challenge). Leadership activities to try. You’ll also learn about a diverse range of leaders and leadership styles.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. 68; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Remember: Collaboration requires leadership. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features,” said Steve Jobs. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions. Have the courage to say “no”. 7 Know When to Show Dates.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 31, 2022

He is an executive coach and started his coaching business, Essential Communications, in 1990, and also hosts the podcast “The Look & Sound of Leadership.” This is a free online resource that provides 30+ exercises for facilitators to get people talking. 32:02] What other tips do you have for facilitators?

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2019

It can be challenging to keep leadership and key stakeholders informed along the way. It can be challenging to keep leadership and key stakeholders informed along the way. Chosen as one of the top three problems they’d like solved in a “Buy a solved problem” exercise (variation on “ Buy a Feature ”). Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Difficult though it may be, a founder needs to step away from the product and relinquish more control to the product function; there were three approaches to easing this process that resonated most strongly with product leaders: Make it a communication and focus exercise.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers. It’s important that outcomes be set by a two-way negotiation between leadership and the product team. This leads to better decisions. – Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 5, 2020

She took them through exercises to explore their work styles and better align their styles to the execution needed using the Innovation Z model. Successful companies dig deep into teams and leadership. Successful companies dig deep into teams and leadership. The company is a B2B software developer.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Behaviors are assessed based on your ability to successfully work with others and on your demonstration of leadership in your role. Leadership can be demonstrated through: Project leadership: For instance, conceptualizing and realizing new and innovative product ideas. Performance is measured on two axes: behavior and results.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. In the background though, you will need to stop doing something less measurable, like leadership, that can impact your career. Experimenting with your retrospectives. What do team members expect from the team?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Often described as the ‘North Star’ or ‘flag in the sand’ from which strategy and tactics flow from and build towards, Product Vision keeps leadership in sync with the front-line who in turn look to the vision for motivation and decision-making. During the workshop, the group will complete: Vision Primer exercise ? Tangible?—?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. And even these very, very experienced leadership rooms are mind blown by the idea that maybe offering their advice or perspective is not the most helpful thing for somebody. Leadership hats. And the book was born. ” Lara: Absolutely.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

The participants came out of the exercise better aligned and improved their future collaboration. The sooner they uncover these show-stopping dependencies, the sooner the product trios can work through them with the support of their leadership. This forced the participants to understand the customer opportunity in more detail.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 24, 2017

One of the first exercises I run with executive teams is mapping their business portfolio to visualize current work in progress and how it aligns to the overall business strategy. Innovation Portfolio Management. Alignment at Scale.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2022

See Dhaval Panchal's Sharing Values, a Team Building Exercise. ). This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #19: How “Team Building” Activities Help and Hurt People and Teams appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2020

In our “new normal,” we’ve had to learn how to not only work but to exercise, cook, and socialize, all while spending the vast majority of our time inside. 6 Mindfulness Exercises to Give Your Brain a Boost (Solvasa). “Most of our current environments are optimized toward shallow work,” he explains.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Leadership interviews: This is a critical input to the process and is often forgotten or skipped for various reasons. Key leaders like founders/CEO have really important nuggets of wisdom tucked away in their back pockets, which structured leadership interviews can unearth. Alignment is critical to mobilize any strategy.

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