Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The post The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help appeared first on Mind the Product. And while this is generally thrilling and also what you signed up for, it can occasionally be the source of headaches as well. Whether you’re the CEO, COO, the Head of Product or leading a business vertical – a particular area that [.].

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280 Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

Embrace the future, redefine possibilities, and shape the future of innovation and leadership in the dynamic landscape of product management. About the Author Joe Ghali Principal Consultant & Trainer, 280 Group Joe has over 15 years of experience in Product Management working for Fortune 100 & 500 organizations.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Leadership and Mastery: A Comparative Look The journey from an individual contributor to a Product Management leader is marked by significant skill enhancement. At 280 Group, Robyn leads a team of curriculum developers, enhancing product management training and consulting with fresh perspectives. Holding a B.A.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 16: Decide When to Choose Power-With or Power-Over appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Managers are more likely to micromanage with power-over.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2021

” I like the consultant's answer, “It depends.” That’s one of the reasons people think management can exist without leadership. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 27, 2020

I had the chance to be on Andrei Crudu's Techie Leadership podcast. I do have plenty of stories about leaders in my consulting experience. The post Hear Me on Techie Leadership Podcast appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. He asks questions about successes and failures as a leader.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

After college I started with Accenture as a consultant where I learned various development languages and database management along with the soft skills of working with clients. Our Product Management team was growing and had strong leadership, so I asked to make the leap into Product! How did you get into Product Management?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. This tip is mostly from Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference. Read more » The post Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 19, 2021

(I'm planning an intermittent series of posts about leadership, loosely based on the Modern Management Made Easy books. Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). The post Leadership Tip #1: Always Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Embarrassed appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). 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. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. Who doesn't want to support or assist other people? Like that lovely tall woman.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2021

This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. This tip is mostly from Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hmm, that might be why I'm a consultant now. This tip is the flip side of Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 15: Reward Meeting Behavior You Want to See appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of the questions in the chat was: “Don't consultants want 100% utilization? ” Here's how consultants create utilization-based billing: By the hour. Because then the client and I have mutually opposing goals: The consultant wants to keep the engagement going as long as possible. Time and materials.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this week's podcast, we were joined by Tobias Freudenreich, a product leadership coach and consultant based in Hamburg. This episode dives deep into the structure of cross-functional teams and explains how this structure can help us build great products that people love.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2019

What is Product Leadership?—?really? Photo by rob walsh on Unsplash With so many Product Management articles out there, let’s talk ‘Product Leadership’ for a change. Product Leadership is NOT necessarily about having the best Product Manager skills. you need to master professional and self leadership. Most importantly?—?and

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips. Get Paid to Lead, Not to Deliver. If you're only doing one-on-ones monthly, you might have to log every day for a month.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2021

(This is one of those intermittent series of posts about leadership, loosely based on the Modern Management Made Easy books. Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). The post Leadership Tip #2: Do the Right Thing, Even When it Feels Uncomfortable appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product leadership insights from Gate One Consulting Seamless digital experiences are an expectation as far as consumers are concerned, not a nice-to-have.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Strong leadership support, beyond compare. About the Author Dean Peters Principal Consultant & Trainer Dean Peters offers nearly twenty years of experience in product management, with a prior decade as a software developer for real-time system integration. Day 10: Ten Execs a-Leaping Ten execs a-leaping, excitement in the air.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 12, 2022

Product is the sort of leadership role that can pull the right team together and get them moving in the right direction. I learned cross-functional leadership from my first boss in Product, John Wang, who went on to be CMO of HTC. How did you learn leadership? How do you learn to be a leader? But how do you get those skills?

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Psychological Safety for Consultants Working With a Toxic Client. Here are some of the insights that surfaced during this year’s forum.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 27, 2021

This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #6: Give Credit as Often as Possible appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. The senior leaders and the people you lead and serve will all thank you. Want to read more? See Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash Get on the same page early in the project to avoid unnecessary conflict Before I was a grad student in OD, it hadn't occurred to me that the PM disciplines (product, project, program) are like consulting. Because PMs, like consultants, get work done only through other people.

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280 Group

JANUARY 26, 2023

We also provide critical strategies for getting leadership to buy into this investment and its associated ROI. About the Author Joe Ghali – Principal Consultant & Trainer at 280 Group Joe Ghali is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group.

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280 Group

APRIL 8, 2020

As a follow up to our Trailblazing Women in Product Management: How to Blaze Your Own Trail virtual panel last month, we invited Linda Lubin Thompson , Executive Coach and Consultant with L2T Leadership Development to dive deeper into the topic of how women can excel in the career of Product Management. Overcoming Gender Bias.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My first job was as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. After a while, as many consultants do, I wanted to get my hands dirty “on the other side”, so I joined Barclaycard International as Head of Strategy and Planning. Over time, my transformation role grew smaller and Product leadership role grew larger.

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280 Group

JANUARY 22, 2020

Leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter Drucker. Leadership Definitions. Let’s start with a couple of definitions of leadership. Our first definition is from the book An Integrative Theory of Leadership. Part of leadership is finding common cause for everyone involved. A Second Model for Leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. This tip is mostly from Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Market Leadership: Amplitude stood out to me because it’s disrupting the digital marketplace–dominating the segment focused on digital product makers. I was impressed with the vision our CRO, Matt Heinz, and executive leadership outlined to assemble a world-class sales organization. What motivated you to join Amplitude?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. This is a form of micromanagement.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When you're starting off as a consultant, you might take the first one or two engagements a client offers. If I, as a consultant, can influence the managers, I might work in this system. What if you're new in consulting and you need the money? I only took one consulting job like this early in consulting career.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2022

It's not, but that's a different leadership tip.) This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. They think that fairness is part of their culture. You can't be.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Being patient is important, especially from a leadership perspective. I think self-awareness is a key part of being a Product Manager because Product Management is also product leadership. You don’t have to have a leadership title. 280 Group is the world’s leading Product Management training and consulting firm.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, in organizations that work as organisms, leadership shows direction and enables action. A model described in Peter Coning’s book, The Agile Leadership Toolkit , leans heavily on the power of team collaboration. Empower your team with servant leadership. Dean Peters is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group.

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