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The Leadership Side of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

Product Management University

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. This is where persuasion skills are paramount to leadership. It doesn’t stop there.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

For example, these stakeholders are likely to include representatives from marketing, sales, support, and finance for a commercial product. Remember that dealing with people issues is part and parcel of managing a product and that learning to constructively address disagreements and conflict is an important leadership skill.

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The end of navel gazing

Intercom, Inc.

“We’re having yet another existential crisis about who we are and what we do” Meanwhile, in company leadership meetings everywhere, this is what’s going on. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, customer support, recruiting, finance, HR, I can keep going. We spent all our energy talking to ourselves.

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When your product is your product team

Product Management Unpacked

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Unlike his previous positions where he led the creation of many tax, HR and accounting products — all subjects where he had little knowledge of the field — Pendo’s product is very much within his core expertise. The burden of bias.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

Once you have these segments, you can build the right product, set the right distribution and positioning, and match the right sales motion to each customer, while also refining your segments over time. For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention.

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VP of Product Management: Your 7-Point Plan for the First 100 Days

Product Management University

You’re now in a great position to tell everyone what you’re going to do, why, and how it’s going to benefit them and the customers. With market dynamics and customer business priorities as the backdrop, you’re now in a position to make well-informed decisions on portfolio and product investment priorities.

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Hey Product Management, Strategic Direction is Yours for the Taking. Here’s How!

Product Management University

or horizontally (IT, Sales, finance, HR, etc.). Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Strong leadership and influence from product management starts with superior market knowledge. Product Management & Product Marketing Leadership: How to Lead From a Position of Strength. Here’s How!