Leading product strategy and execution
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Building software platforms and applications that customers love, and will recommend to their peers, takes extreme focus and hard work.
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Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Building software platforms and applications that customers love, and will recommend to their peers, takes extreme focus and hard work.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Guest post by Gabe Nelson Great leaders inspire. Great leaders don’t dominate a room, they motivate it.
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Lead on Purpose
JULY 27, 2020
Delivering a solid product that customers love requires an up-front knowledge of the market in which customers and potential customers operate. Understanding the problems they face, and solving those problems with a software solution, is the end goal.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 28, 2020
A successful leader leads by influence, not by wielding authority.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 11, 2020
During the last few weeks and months so much has changed for all of us. With the recent pandemic we’ve seen many things change that we heretofore took for granted, things we’d become so accustomed to were transformed within days.
Lead on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Creating great products and building successful companies takes a tremendous amount of work, insatiable initiative and a penchant for perseverance. It requires thinking differently than others think, and even differently than you have thought in the past.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 29, 2019
Establishing A Good (and Mutually Beneficial) Business Relationship With Your Employees From a leader’s point of view, there are three basic things that compose a functional relationship: Command, control, and communication.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 2, 2019
Recently companies have raised their focus on why customer success matters and how to delight increasingly demanding customers. At its core, creating happy customers requires happy employees—the front-line people who interact continually with customers.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 29, 2019
Guest post by Cayden Whitmond Now more than ever, the future of business is one shaped by fast-paced innovations to technology and the way that work is done.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 19, 2019
The goal of every company and product leader is to invent products (or services) that become recognized market leaders. Creating a new product category is icing on the cake, but also rare and extremely difficult.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 22, 2019
Leadership differs depending on the size of the group you’re leading. For most product managers, the people they lead work on different teams and the individuals they need to influence don’t report to them.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 7, 2019
It’s difficult (if not impossible) to quantify what it takes to develop a productive and successful product team. Every product is unique, and every company does things differently.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 29, 2019
Guest post by Fred Halstead Accountability can be thought of as a punitive word with an implied threat-as in “I’m going to hold you accountable.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 29, 2019
Leadership can be difficult to understand, to measure and to carry out, and too often the term ‘leader’ is used for someone who manages a group but doesn’t necessarily lead.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 27, 2019
Guest post by Yvette Bethel Your interconnective infrastructure is the framework that facilitates interpersonal and other work relationships.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 21, 2019
We live in a great time where, in most of the world, you can invent a new product or service and—with the appropriate up-front work—earn money from the value it creates for customers. This is remarkable!
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
The word ‘habit’ generates different thoughts depending on your situation. For some it’s that thing they are addicted to. For others it brings to mind the things they’re not doing and invokes anxiety.
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Guest post by Jesse Nieminen We’re living in an age where many industries are facing big changes. To thrive, or even survive, most companies need to find ways to innovate. Yet, most companies fail to do that.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 14, 2019
You’ve nailed the vision, and built the foundation of trust, now you need to motivate your teams. The success of your product depends on the work they (engineering, UX/design, marketing, sales, etc.) do.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Guest post by Rick Miller The widely-held belief that success is available to everyone, simply with focus and hard work is one among many positive messages regularly reinforced in our Western culture.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
For most organizations, individuals starting a new job have 90 days to prove themselves. What happens during this critical time can make or break your career. Your goal is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 16, 2018
Guest article by Glain Roberts-McCabe “She was completely whole and yet never fully complete” ?Maquita Donyel Irvin One day, I was having lunch with John, a successful CEO of a national retailer.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 4, 2018
We live in a fast-paced world where technology changes our lives daily. For some it’s invigorating. For others it’s intimidating if not terrifying.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 26, 2018
Guest post by John Izzo, PhD and Jeff Vanderwielen PhD Today’s product managers wear many hats and are required to be motivators, counsellors, mentors, and enforcers.
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 6, 2018
The most successful companies have motivated leaders that inspire motivation at all levels of the organization. They are motivated for a real purpose, not just for money or other short-term rewards.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 29, 2018
Success depends as much on the desire of an individual as anything else. Hard work, persistence and intelligence also factor in, and depending on the endeavor, these may play a big role.
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Successful business leaders thrive on competition. They’re at their best when contending for the top customers in high-end markets. They may feel that if they’re not in the middle of a cut-throat battle with competitors, they must not be succeeding.
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 1, 2018
“The future is in your hands, but only if you act today.” Today starts a new year with new opportunities ahead.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Guest post by Paul Sean Hill Creating and leading high-performing teams in any setting requires a high-trust environment. A critical component in creating and keeping that trust is complete transparency across the team.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Whether you recognize it or not, the organization you work in has a culture. Big or small, every company has beliefs and values that drive its core philosophy.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Change happens. Change is one of the inevitable aspects of business and life. Some find it difficult to deal with change, and their attitude toward it limits their growth.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 2, 2017
A common response—when you ask somebody for their help or their input—is “I don’t have enough time.” This is an interesting response given that we all have the same amount of time – 24 hours in a day.
Lead on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Many product managers have begun their tenure with an up-and-coming company by hearing the phrase, “We want you to be the CEO of the product.
Lead on Purpose
AUGUST 28, 2017
Amazon, Intuit, Airbnb, Disney, FedEx and Uber…what do these companies have in common? They know their customers. They don’t just know about their customers, they know why their customers ‘hire’ them and their products to do specific jobs.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 31, 2017
Leading a new team comes with challenges. You have a group of people who have grown accustomed to doing things a certain way. They may or may not have liked their departing manager.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 10, 2017
My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.
Lead on Purpose
JULY 3, 2017
In the United States, we’re celebrating Independence Day. This is a special time because of great leaders, who in the late 1700s risked everything to form a new country where people could pursue their dreams.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 26, 2017
In recent weeks I have interacted with several friends and family who are working through difficult situations. We’ve had informative conversations about what motivates them to keep going. Though their motivations vary, the commonality is their desire to succeed.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 19, 2017
Today’s workforce is working from home more and more. This trend is growing and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 12, 2017
One of the interesting things I’ve found about life—all aspects of life—is that it keeps moving forward, it keeps changing. Every day brings something new, something different.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 15, 2017
Teamwork is critical for the true success of everything we do. Think about it, every venture we undertake requires help from someone; that’s the way it’s supposed to go.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 8, 2017
Guest post by Amy Blankson Have you ever seen The Matrix, Terminator, Minority Report or Ex Machina?
Lead on Purpose
MAY 1, 2017
Guest post by Harrish Sairaman The Law of Attraction, like many other laws is a law of the universe. The Law of Attraction (LOA) states that a person attracts situations that are aligned to his/her vibrations.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 24, 2017
If you want to change your life, and maybe the world, you need to see things through different eyes. The simple things in life—things that we don’t always see right in front of us—make all the difference.
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