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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Manager&# is an interesting title. An account manager is different from a store manager. Even within the title of “store manager&# the scope and breadth of responsibility varies widely. The manager of a 7-Eleven has significantly different responsibilities than the manager of a Costco store.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

by Bill Taylor. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. Great People Are Overrated. by Rob Wheeler.

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Why Zuckerberg Is (Almost) Right About Great Talent

Harvard Business Review

Aligning speed-to-market, scalability, ease-of-use, robustness, resilience, maintainability and enhance-ability is what productivity really means. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W.