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Product Leadership, Strategy and Tactics

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Shane Drumm
May 23, 2024

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In todays edition is to all about Product Leadership, Strategy and Tactics….

  • Power of Product Culture

  • $317 acquisition via product model

  • Harnessing & Leveraging Emotional Intelligence

Thanks for opening this email today, hope you find it useful

Shane Drumm, newsletter editor

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Improve Product Management to Drive Business Agility

Business Agility means that a company can work on what is most important at any given moment at no additional cost.

Product Management enables Business Agility by:

1. Placing Product ownership at the whole company level.

2. Creating teams of teams that collaborate synchronously on business problems.

15min blog post by Roland Flemm on Scrum.org

WEEKLY TOP PICKS for Product Leaders

🙌 Culture-Driven Leadership is Product Management

🔋The Power of Culture: Unlocking High Performance in Your Company with Mark McNally, Chief Nobody at Nobody Studios

📈Decoding Strategy: How one CPO led a company out of slow growth into a $317m acquisition

Deep Dive 45min read from Product Managers at Work

💡Idea Maps 101: How to Use Them in Your Product Strategy

7min Read with 3 Templates from The Product Manager

👩‍🏫 Lessons Learned from Industry Virtual 2024 (see below for video playlist)

3 lessons from each 7 keynotes from Product Collective

Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility.

Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership.

Culture-driven product leaders mold and develop a culture where if one person fails, we all fail. They nurture a community where everyone is supported. They lead their teams from within them, not above them.

GOLDEN OLDIE

Alternatives To Product Managers

This was a response article to when when Brian Chesky the AIrBnB founder put the product world in a spin when he said they don’t have product managers.

Marty speaks about the various alternatives when the product management responsibility is covered by skilled product leaders.

The most famous example of this working at scale is Apple.

SOMETHING FUNNY

YouTube Watchlist

INDUSTRY: The Product Conference did a virtual conference and all the talks are online. The list of talks are as follows…

  • Embracing Storytelling as a Powerful Design Tool

  • Harnessing Emotional Intelligence in Product Management

  • Navigating Uncertainty with Adaptive Product Strategy

  • Leveraging Emotional Intelligence in Product Leadership

  • Navigating the Challenges of a First-Time Head of Product

  • Managing AI Products: Lessons from the Frontier

  • Overcoming the Five Deadly Sins of Strategy

AGILE PRODUCT TOOLBOX

💼 Want to work in a product driven organization?

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