by Mike Smart A few years ago, a friend of mine recommended the book Topgrading by Brad Smart, Ph.D. One “a-ha” moment for me was the cost of hiring and [ … ]
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Six Questions You Should Be Asking Your Salespeople
by Matt Volpi Salespeople and product managers aren’t always the best of friends. A salesperson is driven by their individual goals and compensation. They are often too busy or uninterested [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Go to school, get an education, create a job
By Saeed Khan Back in 2009, as the economic downturn was digging in, I wrote the following piece. People were getting laid off in droves and having to search for [ … ]
Mind the Product 2012 – An Online Overview
By Saeed Khan The Mind the Product conference was held last Friday in London. It was probably the largest gathering of product managers, product market in Europe. If you wanted [ … ]
5 Things you should do when you start a new Product Management role
By Veronica Figarella In 7 years of Product Management I’ve been lucky enough to start managing a new product at least 4 times. But many times, the product was new [ … ]
Case Study – First 30 days into a New Role
By Saeed Khan In January (Jan 10 to be exact), we published a guest post by Ninon Laforce, entitled: A 90 Day Plan for New Product Managers. In it, Ninon [ … ]
We are entering the Age of Innovation
By Saeed Khan If I gave you an assignment to hire someone to build a device to get cameras (still and video) into the upper atmosphere (at least 80,000 feet), [ … ]
The Most Important Skills for Product Managers are …
By Saeed Khan Last week, I asked you (the readers), to answer the following questions – What are the base skills, tools, knowledge etc. that are either necessary or VERY [ … ]
Open Question: Top skills every Product Manager should know/learn?
By Saeed Khan Last week I had the pleasure of hosting my second #prodmgmttalk Twitter chat. These are held weekly on Monday 4PM PST (Tuesday morning in Australia) and are [ … ]
Book Review: The Lean Startup
Tweet this: The Lean Startup by @EricRies : Book Review @PGopalan http://wp.me/pXBON-2Vg #lean #startup #innovation #prodmgmt by Prabhakar Gopalan The Lean Startup by Eric Ries hit the digital book stands a [ … ]