Leadership

In this #mtpcon London+EMEA session, Kristina Walcker-Mayer, CEO at Nuri, explains how being a product manager provides a great apprenticeship to becoming a CEO. Read more »

As our Product Leadership Focus Week draws to a close, we figured it would be a good idea to end on a high and look back on this inspirational first-time talk from Oluwatobi Otokiti for this Sunday Rewind episode. In her talk How Influential Leadership Builds Winning Products Tobi asks us as product managers to consider ourselves as Read more »

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, Nate Walkingshaw believes that it’s time to take our lessons from the approach and move on. In this Sunday rewind, we look back to when Nate explained why… Read more »

In this MTP Leader panel, our line-up of experts joined Emily Tate, Mind the Product’s Managing Director, to discuss how to navigate tricky work relationships. Read more »

In this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session for members, award-winning author and corporate innovation expert, Tendayi Viki, joined Mind the Product’s Managing Director, Emily Tate, to talk about driving innovation within product teams and organisations. Read more »

What really is the difference between managing and leading your product. Don’t product managers need to be able to both manage and lead? In this piece, we’ll delve into why product leaders should care about both. Read more »

On Monday 27 September, product leaders gathered at the MTP Engage Leadership Forum in Hamburg for the first face-to-face event after a tiringly long break forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The day’s hosts, Petra Wille and Arne Kittler, put together a curriculum that was more than just inspiring. It addressed some of the most important Read more »

A “bulletproof soul”. For Executive Product Leader, Dominique Jost, this is the perfect way to describe what product leaders need in order to do their jobs well. And, over the last stressful 18 months, any product leaders who hadn’t yet developed one, probably had to do so pretty quickly. This topic — stress management for Read more »

Little in a company is more important than the successful transition to a leadership role — make good decisions as a senior leader and you’ll positively impact the business. Make bad decisions and your influence on the organisation will surely hit a bum note. But transition to product leadership isn’t always easy. McKinsey posits that 50% of Read more »

How can product people reconcile their ambition with the reality of what they’re doing right now? In this ProductTank London talk, Product Leader and Team Coach Hope Gurion provides some guidance for job seekers hoping to make the next leap in their careers but unsure about how to get there. The key points of her Read more »