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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. Make customer calls and customer visits often. Know what works.

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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

Next Level Blog

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.    It's funny and informative.

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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

Next Level Blog

He marshaled all of his country’s resources and the talents and technology of experts from around the world to get the miners back alive.   In the days and weeks that followed, more communications technology was lowered into the mine. Chilean government ministers and officials coordinated the rescue masterfully.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing. s Crotonville leadership center back in the 1980’s and 1990’s when Immelt was on his way up. 

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Ever the engineer at heart, Tom has come up with a series of "equations" to follow that will help implement these strategies regardless of what industry or line of business you work in. .  And, generally speaking, this does not create a lot of problems.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

  A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.  "  If you reverse engineer it back to the beginning, you'll almost certainly see that you had a ton of direct and indirect help from people you've met along the way. 

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Great work… [link] davidburkus Good list. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. I’m not an MBA.

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