From PLG to PLS!
Leave it to the management consultants to come up with acronyms… Move over Product Led Growth and Sales Led Growth… here comes PLS – Product Led Sales! Jokes apart, here are the key points to consider: There was and continues to be lot of hype about PLG. PLG is not the “holy grail” and not for everyone. Sales led growth …
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Happy Entrepreneur’s Day!
Hey there, fellow #founders and #startup leaders! As we kick back to celebrate Entrepreneur’s Day, it’s time to give a shout-out to the real superheroes out there – the entrepreneurs. Sure, the movies make it look all glamorous and snazzy, but let’s be real – this journey isn’t always a walk in the park. It’s more like a rollercoaster through …
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Work gets better when we meet
Remote work is great! Remote work is slowing us down! There is no collaboration! If we ask team members to come to work, they will leave! If you a in a tech company, you might have heard one or more of these over the last 12-18 months. All of us were forced to adopt and adapt to a remote working …
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Experiential learning: A must for product managers and leaders
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.” – Albert Einstein “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius You’ve probably come across these quotes somewhere along the line. At their heart they essentially define what experiential learning (ExL) is: learning by doing. Learning can be consumed in many ways; through …
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Different roles, different skills
“Put a bunch of smart people together and magic will happen”. You will hear this refrain often repeated. Sometimes companies – #startups or bigger will actually follow this. Smart engineers (yes that is usually the case) will come together. On their own, or will be brought together by someone with money. And they will do what they know best – …
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Challenges of product leadership
Product leadership creates a product-led strategy that prioritizes and helps the product align with the organization’s mission and vision. Successful product teams are developed by leaders in product-inspired cultures. This involves several management-level duties, such as putting together and leading the product team, owning the strategic goals, and ensuring the team has access to the tools and resources it needs …
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Key skills for product leaders
Leadership is the art of inspiring employees to strive towards a common goal. The process of influencing their attitude, conduct, and cognition of others is just as important as leading a group of people or an organization. Product leadership is the process of managing the organization’s product initiatives. A product leader is someone who empowers others through actions such as …
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Customers want value from your product
Customers don’t want your product. Customers don’t care much about your product features. Customers don’t want to spend money on something they don’t want. Then why are so many products being bought and product businesses growing? Well, above statements have more to it then appears. Customers are interested in themselves, their personal life, their work life and their business. They …
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Learn to be a product manager – A beginner’s guide
Product management is one of the most lucrative professions and is growing rapidly as is the demand for product managers. In fact, product management is expected to reach USD 31.84 billion by 2025. In this article, we will try to explain what product management is. Is it just the process of delivering a product? What else does it include? And …
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Cultivating integrative complexity
What do Presidents, Prime Ministers and successful PMs – Product Managers — have in common? Ever wondered how the leader of a country can be fighting off aggression from a neighbour and at the same time be negotiating a trade agreement with that same country? Such leaders usually score high on IC. How does one deal with ambiguous information, conflicting …
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