Product Leadership
👩🚀 Product Leadership Focus Week 🗺
On 25 April – 1 May, you joined us for Product Leadership Focus Week, thank you! Scroll down to explore the content we released each day and more.
Content
- 📝 Blog [MTP Leader members only]: In Developing a positive mental health culture as a product leader, we reveal simple strategies product leaders can use to implement and nurture a positive mental health culture in the workplace.
- 📝 Blog: In this #mtpcon London+EMEA session, The 5 ways Product Management prepares you to become a CEO, Kristina Walcker-Mayer, CEO at Nuri, explains the ways that being a product manager provides a great apprenticeship to becoming a CEO. Conference talk videos are usually exclusively for MTP members, but we’ve opened this one up to everyone!
- 🎧 Podcast: In Leadership challenges throughout the product lifecycle, Todd Olson, co-founder and CEO of Pendo, reveals how he climbed the leadership ladder and shares his advice for anyone keen to do the same.
- 📽 Live panel discussion on Learning to Lead [Members only]: In this panel, exclusive to MTP members, we’ll hear from a panel of product leaders about how they got their jobs and what’s worked for them (and what hasn’t!) as leaders. We’ll discuss the secret to success when moving into product leadership and how product people at all levels can start laying the foundations for becoming excellent leaders later on in their careers, and much more. Watch the recording here.
- 📝 Blog: High performing teams acknowledge the role of both optimism and pessimism and create systems of work that exploit their benefits equally. In this post, ‘Train your product team’s brain to embrace optimism and pessimism’ we’ll unpack optimism and pessimism, and look at ways to make the most of both in your team.
- 📽📝 Video + Blog [Members only]: In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Applied Product Management: Why you may be struggling as a product leader, Gijo Mathew, CPO at VTS, explains why we should be thinking of product management in the same way we think of applied mathematics — the application of methods and specialised knowledge.
- 📽📝 Video + Blog We go back to 2020 and a talk by Tobi Otokiti, How Influential Leadership Builds Winning Products. In it she asks us as product managers to consider ourselves as the product – to see ourselves as product leaders, not just managers, and to genuinely care for our teams.
LATEST POSTS
Introducing the Product-led Certification Course by Pendo and Mind the Product
To help product managers build a deeper knowledge of and experience with product-led tactics, we worked with our friends at Pendo to create the Product-led Certification Course: a three-hour, self-paced course that teaches the fundamentals of being a product-led organization and specific tactics you can start implementing at your own company. […] Read more »
How to recognise and beat the 'knowing' gap – Christina Wodtke at MTP Engage Hamburg
On a warm summer afternoon at MTP Engage Hamburg 2022, Christina Wodtke, lecturer and author including the bestseller Radical Focus explained how the challenge of building an effective workplace to deliver innovative technology is hindered by fast thinking, defensive cultures, conflict aversion and misaligned incentives. […] Read more »
Get innovation-ready, your product manager is on fire! by Julia Shalet
In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Juliet Shalet, author of The Really Good Idea Test, talks about what you can do to start to knock down the blockers and get your organisation ready to receive! […] Read more »
What we learned at the 2022 #mtpEngage Leadership Forum
I looked him straight into the eyes. He looked back at me. We didn’t say a single word. No one dared to move. Everything was still for 5 mins. What sounds like a plot to the latest John Grisham crime novel was actually a way to hack leadership. But… let’s start at the beginning: On […] Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: What world-class product management teams do differently
What is the secret ingredient for creating world-class product management teams? In this Sunday Rewind episode, Jeff Lash, VP and Group Director at SiriusDecisions – acquired by Forrester gave us some insight. […] Read more »
What we learned at #mtpEngage Hamburg 2022
After a two-year hiatus, this year’s MTP Engage Hamburg brought together product people from Germany and further afield—this year it was packed into an exciting three days of product management expertise. Here’s what we learned from the amazing talks given by our line-up of renowned product experts. […] Read more »
Great product managers harness human-to-human dynamics for product success
In this adapted excerpt from his recent book Sweet Stakeholder Love: Powerful Insights and Tactics to Deal with Stakeholder Issues Better and Achieve More Success at Work Sigi Osagie discusses the formula for great managers using human dynamics to harness product success. […] Read more »
Bring the JOY back to work by Ben Newell
In this keynote session at #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022, Ben Newell, VP of Product at Stitch Fix looks at disrupting ruts and the benefits of bringing the joy back to work. […] Read more »
Product Systems: How to manufacture lightning in a bottle by Oji Udezue
In his opening keynote session at #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022 day two, Oji Udezue, Product Lead at Twitter, examines the key elements needed to create impactful product systems that elevate everyone. […] Read more »
How I got my job in product - Robin Padilla
Robin Padilla is Director of Product Management at Springer Nature. He has been working in product for 7 years. Here’s how he got into product. […] Read more »