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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. The sales people who “get it&# will feed critical information back to product management to improve the products, but they will not expect things to change overnight or for their next sale.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). In product management, I believe they have to change in order to evolve. Your insight on “managing&# versus “owning&# is interesting. However, when you own something, that’s different.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys. Another avenue that many product management leaders fail to utilize is internal relationships.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

Taylor Callery/Getty Images. For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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What to Do After a Bad Performance Review

Harvard Business Review

When Denis Coleman was promoted from finance to management in a fast-growing electronics manufacturer, he didn’t have any experience leading a team. Stephanie Barnes Taylor had recently transferred to the contracts division of a law firm in Atlanta. Case Study #1: Clarify in order to move forward. So it was a double shock.”.