Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The real question is: are you willing to invest the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to take on the responsibility of a leadership position? The authors propose three questions you should ask to assess your own leadership potential: How far do you want to go?

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As So how do leaders make lasting change?

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When describing the impact this individual had on the trip, the speaker made the following profound observation: People will follow clear leadership What does ‘clear leadership’ mean to you? What benefits have you experienced from clear leadership? Please share your ideas. I know who is the leader in-charge.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What’s more, with so many different personality styles on your team, finding leadership tactics that work across the board can be a challenge. Be innovative. You’ll be seen as an innovator and not just someone who goes along with the group. Be true to yourself and present your own ideas confidently. Build relationships of trust.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 4, 2010

This first Leadership Development Carnival in 2010 provides links to 50 posts — what Dan calls “the Best of 2009.&# The Leadership Development Carnival is a great way improve your leadership development and get to know the bloggers who are making it happen.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It is a tremendous honor to be named to this list with other great blogs such as Seth’s Blog , Management Excellence , The Best Horse Sense (a personal favorite since I grew up on a ranch), Great Leadership , the Tom Peters Weblog and many other great leadership blogs.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The latest Leadership Carnival brings together links to more than 30 fresh posts on topics such as mentors and role models, leading teams and maximizing your performance. The Leadership Development Carnival is a great way to expand your leadership knowledge and get to know the bloggers who are making it happen.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

September’s Leadership Carnival brings together links to more than 25 fresh posts on topics such as employee development, identifying true leaders and beating stress. The Leadership Development Carnival is a great way to expand your leadership knowledge and get to know the bloggers who are making it happen.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Several years ago I wrote that you can’t fake leadership. You can’t fake leadership, especially if you’re wearing blinders! —. Leadership Product Management / Marketing confidence customers humility success' Becoming a leader requires a careful combination of confidence and humility.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 22, 2014

Increase leadership capabilities at all levels of the company. Another recent article discusses specific steps you can take to re-shape you company and free your innovation culture. The biggest influence comes from how well your product serves its market, and how your customers feel about/react to the product.

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Company Team Building Metrics Innovation 165

Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2009

Jim Holland’s guest post Leadership Lessons from a Kindergarten Class is the focus. July’s Leadership Carnivals brings together links to more than 25 fresh posts on topics such as accountability, talent management and succession planning. The Leadership Development Carnival is well a half hour of your time.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 1, 2009

A great example of enduring leadership was Samuel Adams , one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Filed under: Leadership , Purpose Tagged: | effort , endurance , marathon , perseverance , Samuel Adams , success « Knowledge is power Founding Fathers – true leaders » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 8, 2011

The next big breakthrough, and the one that will help keep the United States on top, will come from a combination of the forces within big cities, great universities, and powerful local leaders: Local leadership: The leadership at the local level is key to creating new jobs. Entrepreneurship is more important than innovation.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. Help product marketing set the proper tone for the launch by understanding the new product’s strengths. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. What can a classroom full of bright-eyed and energized kindergartners teach you about leadership? I decided to use this as research into the minds of 6 year olds and to see what leadership attributes the kids had acquired over the months.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 10, 2010

They expect marketers to stop pitching things and start helping them understand how they can get what they need. Please see Product Marketing for Start-ups on the Product Management Pulse. They expect product managers to show them how their products can solve problems and help them succeed.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 24, 2013

He goes in-depth with nine hallmarks of effective leadership: Trait #1—Enlightened Self-Interest : Creates a system where people feel secure but also accountable; where everyone feels confident enough to say, “I made a mistake.”. Take Mr. Shankman’s words to heart as you take your next product to market.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2010

Trust is key to understanding your customers and your market. Covey « Credit comes later Leadership and persistence » Like Be the first to like this post. – The Product Management Perspective: Trust is the most important characteristic a product manager can possess.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Learning , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | learn , opportunity , value , Mark Sanborn , design « Five championship strategies Book Review: Here Comes Everybody » Like Be the first to like this post. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Innovation is innovation, no matter where it’s applied and regardless of its source. Put your focus and efforts into growing your products’ market share and revenue.

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Ries Company Entrepreneur Agility 216

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Instead we should embrace it and make sure that through our hard work and strategic insight we create great products that help development, marketing and sales receive high praise and recognition for their work. CEOs are praised for their vision.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. During this conversation Larry shares the strategies that have made his teams successful through the years.

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Strategy Sports Ethics Loyalty 196

Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2010

One the most effective ways to create value for your company is to become an expert at market sensing. To the extent you guide your company to create and sell the right products and services for your market, you will become the hero of your organization. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 169

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In the spirit of thanking these friends and introducing my audience to their web sites, here are a few links to sites you should take a look at: Leadership Digital : An aggregator of the best content on leadership and management. This site shares frequent updates on improving leadership throughout organizations.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Integrity builds character, which creates the foundation of great leadership. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Trust Tagged: | character , honesty , Integrity , John Wooden , truthfulness « The power of influence Creating leaders » Like Be the first to like this post. Live with integrity; lead with integrity.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 19, 2010

Filed under: Trust , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | requirements , change , flexibility « Book Review: Trust Agents Lucky breaks » Like Be the first to like this post. – The Product Management Perspective: See above (and, of course, don’t get set in your ways or the change will be painful).

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 150

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2010

The strength of your character and competence equate to the strength of your leadership. 3 Responses The 7 Lesson Series of Attraction Marketing That You Should Not Ignore | Network Marketer Professional , on March 5, 2010 at 11:40 am said: [.] Without them, effective leadership becomes to be a near impossible task.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 15, 2010

Filed under: Techology , Market-driven , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | social media , Chris Brogan , Julien Smith , Mitch Joel , community , tribe « Leadership and learning Five championship strategies » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night. As you wait behind the door, you hear your team line up, boots scuffing the ground, weapons cocked.

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Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The rules that apply to personal success also apply to product success (with some adaptations): discover the value of ideas for new products by doing market research; understand the personas, the potential users and buyers of the products; then “plant the seeds&# of the product by writing clear requirements and designs.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The following quote by Tom Peters speaks volumes about leadership: Leaders don’t create followers. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | Tom Peters « Lead with integrity Do hard things » Like Be the first to like this post. They create more leaders.

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Taylorism Taylor Godin Ethics 124

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Covey is the abundance of leadership quotes he has included in the book. Jim Burke, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson Filed under: Leadership , Trust , Uncategorized Tagged: | business , relationships , Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R. They give excellent insight into the importance trust plays in your success.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The marketing team has a message they want to send about the new product. Filed under: Leadership , Team Building , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | language « Lucky breaks Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 154

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2010

I started this blog (in 2007) to promote leadership principles in product management. I will continue to learn and share and identify blogs, books and people who are doing great things in leadership and product management. For those of you who have me on your RSS feeds: Thank you and I apologize sincerely.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Leadership is more about the state of mind than the title. Leadership is a choice. The owner makes sure his product meets market needs. Smith , on September 27, 2010 at 10:05 pm said: “The owner makes sure his product meets market needs. Seth Godin covers this concept nicely in his book Tribes.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. Find ways to move your relationships forward. Success, in any endeavor, requires effective relationships.

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