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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. As the individual is a peer and not the boss, they cannot tell people what to do and they are usually not in a position to offer rewards like a promotion.

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Unlocking the Secret to a Winning Product Strategy: The Power of a Positive Mindset

The Product Coalition

That is until I got a chance to participate in a mindfulness exercise. I learned that with a quick mindfulness exercise, I could shift my perspective, silence the doubts and concentrate on the possibilities instead. They need to feel positive, focused, and supported to do their best work. It was truly eye-opening!

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Positioning for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors. The traditional approach is to develop a positioning statement.

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482: People-first product leadership for higher performing teams – with Diana Stepner

Product Innovation Educators

She is also a product leadership instructor on Maven and has held leadership and advisor product positions. Positive leadership character: Show traits such as integrity, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion. 5:37] Tell us more about the aspects of positive leadership character. Another exercise I use is called a Read Me.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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AI is Changing How Product Managers Learn For the Better

Product Management University

AI has put you in the best position to do that in a fraction of the time it would take you otherwise. Our Training Courses With AI The biggest difference will be the breakout sessions, the hands-on exercises and associated artifacts. AI is finally going to put product managers in the position of strength theyve long coveted.

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TEI 274: The mindset product managers need to breakthrough barriers – with Dana Wilde

Product Innovation Educators

The fourth step is the positive emotion that’s generated from this system. 34:22] Bonus Question: What are some specific exercises we can use to start our mindset journey? But we can choose to speak positively to ourselves. The fourth step is the positive emotion that’s generated from this system.