Lead on Purpose

JULY 27, 2009

Tom Peters sheds an interesting perspective on focus with the following quote: Leaders focus on the soft stuff — people, values, character, commitment, a cause. All of that was supposed to be too (indefinable) to count in business. Yet it’s the stuff that real leaders take care of first. That’s why leadership is an art, not a science.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2010

They (the PMs) also need to trust that the team members will do what they have committed to do. Trust is a two-way street: product managers need to carry out their tasks in such a way that the team members can trust them.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Perhaps a person that is watching over a product on a daily basis, but not really committed to its growth and success is a product manager, but a person who having more “skin in the game&# should be a product owner. However, when you own something, that’s different. What do you think? Michael Reply Justin T.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Are attendees leaving with a new idea, some new inspiration, perhaps a renewed commitment to their work or to the world?&# - Mark Hurst “The road to sustainability goes through a clear-eyed look at unsustainability.&# - Alan M. Hutchins Seth and his coauthors are trying to get five million downloads of the ebook.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | champions , feedback , listening , process , success « Book Review: Here Comes Everybody Commitment » Like Be the first to like this post. To succeed as a product manager you need to hear what other have to say, apply the positive aspects, swallow your pride and move forward.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 30, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The process of defining and creating successful products requires a commitment to understanding your markets and the role (or position) your products will play therein. The combination of these actions will improve your success. Gaining this understanding requires reading, thinking and acting.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

They also need to trust that the team members will do what they have committed to do. Trust goes both ways: product managers need to carry out their tasks in such a way that the team members can trust them. Covey , success « Book Review: The Pursuit of Something Better Keeping the best » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Cultivating relationships and presenting new responsibilities will keep the team members happy and increase their commitment to helping the company succeed. Leaders who understand this find ways broaden the skills of their teams. 3 Responses Bret Simmons , on October 27, 2009 at 5:48 am said: Glad you blogged on this WSJ article, Michael.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2010

Filed under: Leadership , Purpose , Trust Tagged: | Chris Brogan , Julien Smith , Trust Agents « Commitment Flexibility and letting go » Like Be the first to like this post. While this book focuses primarily on building relationships online, the principles fit very nicely into the world we live in as product managers.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Pressured with executive leadership commitments (usually in front of sales and customers) your team begins ducking and dodging the monkeys while trying to focus on bringing the right products to market. Commitment – demonstrate commitment to your product’s success. If you like the post, please comment.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 11, 2009

Hold others accountable for their commitments. Promote their welfare, fortunes, success and capacity for achievement. Give away your knowledge, connections, experience, advice, life lessons and confidence. In his book The Speed of Trust , author Stephen MR Covey discusses the value that comes from trusting others.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Gentile has spent a great deal of her life in the classrooms of Harvard Business School and Babson College and from reading her book it seems that she thinks if her students know what ethical decision-making is, they will take action on what they think is right. Taylor Caldwell. That is all the hope I have.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Leaders who consistently make bad decisions, dither, or fail to quickly secure needed resources or follow through on commitments are not apt to create Self-Starters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines. After the 2008 financial crisis, business schools hastened to add ethics courses. ” Soon after, Peter Drucker predicted the End of Economic Man.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. As team leaders, we started to notice that a common source of team friction came from members committing to their own ideas before the team as a whole agreed to a course of action. We also asked participants how intelligent or ethical they perceived the other person to be, based on their recommendation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

For example, consider how kids are currently interacting with AI and automated technologies: Right now, it might seem magical to tell Siri, “Show me photos of celebrities in orange dresses,” and see a photo of Taylor Swift pop up on a smartphone less than a second later. Even greater commitments will be necessary going forward.

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