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Management & Product Management

ProdMan.Net  Apr 22 13 :

Tip: Learn from other product managers -

Most product managers are pretty nice and outgoing folks. At least the good ones are:) I suggest you spend a lot of time asking for advice.
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What Every Product Manager Needs To Know About The Hadoop Database Solution -

Just in case you’ve been living with your head underneath a rock, the world appears to have gone “big data” crazy lately.
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Lead on Purpose  Apr 20 13 :

Why Sports Builds Leadership -

Guest post by Jordan Spindler Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success.
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brainmates  Apr 18 13 :

The Agile Business Gap – Live Interview [8am 23/04/2013 AEST] -

I (Nick Coster) am very excited to be talking next week on the Global Product Management Talk about a topic that I have been thinking about and working on for quite some time.
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On Product Management  Apr 17 13 :

Avoiding the “best of both worlds” mindset -

By Joshua Duncan Take a close look at the picture to the right. It’s the 1899 Horsey Horseless, considered one of the worst cars of all time (source Time.
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Market Research Tips; Combining Strategy and Marketing -

Frame Your Market Research Objectives as Questions; The Best Companies Combine Marketing and Strategy; What’s Hot on Twitter
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brainmates  Apr 15 13 :

Strategy: Briefly Explained -

Strategy is a term that is often bandied about by many without a crystal clear understanding or definition of what it actually means.
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Product Managers Need To Learn How To Offer Customers A Next Best Offer -

If there was a perfect world for us product managers to live in, what would it look like? Sure there would be white unicorns everywhere but what would our jobs be like? I’d guess that we’d know our customers much better than we know them today.
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Lead on Purpose  Apr 13 13 :

Leadership and listening -

Positive and effective communication starts with listening. When you listen first and ask questions second, you come away with a much better understanding of what the other person wanted you to know.
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ProdMan.Net  Apr 09 13 :

Tip: Learn what sticks in marketing and advertising -

Here’s a great marketing book that I really enjoyed reading a few years back. I know its a good book because I still think about it all the time in my work.
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What Can A Tax Software Company Teach Product Managers About Customer Information Overload? -

Ugg, taxes! I don’t like them, you don’t like them, nobody likes them. One of the reasons that nobody likes taxes is that they are so very complicated – what counts as taxable income and what doesn’t? It turns out that the company Intuit realized that we don’t like taxes and they’ve made a lot [.
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Lead on Purpose  Apr 06 13 :

Sustainable and effective leadership -

“Removing what does not matter is the first step in figuring out what does.” This statement sums up one of the key indicators to sustainable and effective leadership as taught in the book The Leader’s Climb: A Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership Challenge by Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen.
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On Product Management  Apr 05 13 :

Worth Repeating: Customers – How to work with Product Management and Influence our Product Direction -

by Saeed Khan I originally wrote this post a couple of years ago, but some recent experiences with customers reminded me of it.
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ProductMarketing.com  Apr 05 13 :

A Product Launch Resource You May Be Overlooking -

During the feverish pitch leading up to the launch of a new product or new version of an existing product, it's easy to focus on the obvious: product, sales channel, and marketing.
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On Product Management  Apr 03 13 :

How to increase your chances of getting your product idea funded -

By Rivi Aspler There are many product-oriented checklists that one can find over the web. Product groups can easily check their readiness to various types of targets, whether its design, development, deployment, launch or sales.
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How Product Managers Can Help Their Customers Weigh Their Options -

Have you ever had to make a decision between two products that you were considering buying? How did you go about doing this? If you are like most of us, you collected what data you could on both products and then you weighed the data in order to try to see which product would best [.
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Lead on Purpose  Mar 30 13 :

Improving management effectiveness -

One of the primary themes of Lead on Purpose is leading effectively regardless of whether you are in a position of authority – in a ‘management’ position.
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On Product Management  Mar 28 13 :

The Almighty “C” and its growing Influence on B2B -

By John Mansour Blackberry is probably the most visible example of an organization whose strength in corporate IT departments was about as ironclad as you could get until the past few years.
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On Product Management  Mar 27 13 :

One day at Product Camp (Silicon Valley) -

By Saeed Khan First off, thanks to Rich Mironov for the title of this post. He was wearing a  t-shirt from the first ProductCamp Silicon Valley with the phrase on it.
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Have A Very Happy Easter! -

  Finally! Easter has finally arrived. I hope that you are going to be able to take some time off and celebrate this special season as Spring is just around the corner and Winter is quickly becoming a distant memory! I’m going to take this week off and get some well deserved rest.
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