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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. The sales people who “get it&# will feed critical information back to product management to improve the products, but they will not expect things to change overnight or for their next sale.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). In product management, I believe they have to change in order to evolve. Your insight on “managing&# versus “owning&# is interesting. However, when you own something, that’s different.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

This was originally posted in 2009, and it remains one of our most popular posts. by Bill Taylor. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. More people commented on this post than on any other in HBR.org's history. The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. by David Silverman. Don't bother. by Tony Schwartz.

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Question the Euro Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Countries undergoing austerity programs have more debt today than they did in 2009, for little visible benefit. So, as Lenin once put it, what is to be done? Europe has a plethora of conflicting answers from which to choose.

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