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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit. They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. Know what works.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity. These industrialists looked for logical methods to distinguish and portray ideal bodily movements for ideal productive behaviors through work designs.

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Leadership and learning

Lead on Purpose

— The Product Management Perspective: Technology continues to evolve ever more rapidly. How can you — the product manager — keep up? Colin Powell Make it your objective to be a life-long learner; every aspect of your life will benefit. Markets change quickly. You have to be a learner.

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Book Review: Here Comes Everybody

Lead on Purpose

We are being pushed rapidly down a route largely determined by the technological environment.&# “Anything that raises the cost of doing something reduces what gets done.&# — The Product Management Perspective: What can you say when your boss walks in and throws a new book on your desk?

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What matters in 2010?

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’ How does government become an open platform that allows people inside and outside government to provide better services to each other? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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The right people

Lead on Purpose

Technology and automation certainly improve the work people do; however, no tools or equipment will ever replace the people in a successful organization. — The Product Management Perspective: The role of product management is a key role in every organization.

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Capturing ideas

Lead on Purpose

— The Product Management Perspective: Ideas are the fuel for great products. The difficulty for many product managers is capturing ideas and filtering the potentially great ones from the not so good. The more ideas you capture the more likely you are to get the perfect new product or feature.

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