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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. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Core Competencies.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

At Harman, CEO Dinesh Paliwal repeatedly stressed that the company's traditional markets were saturated, and that future growth must be cultivated in markets that Harman had not hitherto served. Leverage global resources: Paliwal recruited several of the more open-minded members of the legacy engineering culture to join the India LGT.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” We cannot stress this enough. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. The candidate is someone with a passion for taking calculated risks. Sound like you?

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Many business leaders we have spoken with have stressed: It’s not about the technology, it’s about solving a problem. Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook.