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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ You don’t have to be a line manager to lead others.

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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Roman Pichler

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Roman Pichler

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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Product Manager Career Path: Positions, Responsibilities, and How to Advance

Product Management University

Leadership Product Management Roles Product Director As one of the first tiers of product management leadership, prior experience in leadership is not usually required as this role can be an introduction to a management role for many. Learn more: The Leadership Side Of Product Management – What Does It Really Mean?

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. Trevor explains, “The leadership team felt like discovery was ‘taking too long.’

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.