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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

We’re lucky to have an amazing CTO with a deep knowledge of e-commerce and strong desire to partner with the business, and a strong team behind him. When the industry was purporting that mobile was best served as a content engine and mobile shopping would take years to take off, we dove-in head first. My kids are my best focus group.

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