Product Leadership

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Podcast Moments

Megan Cook00:00:00

“What we put into place is something we call Fight Club. It's 30 minutes every week, and it's just for myself, my engineering, and my design leader; and we get together, and we know that we're going there to have a conflict.”

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira) · Megan Cook

Petra Wille00:00:00

“Getting promoted is way harder if you're not good at telling stories and rallying the team behind a shared goal. You usually achieve this through good storytelling techniques. I would consider it a bit of a career staller if you don't get to a decent level of storytelling and to a decent level of public speaking.”

How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People) · Petra Wille

Adriel Frederick00:06:30

“There's a tendency when you've been doing this for a while to assume that the decisions you've made in the past are still the right ones. But the world changes, your users change, and you have to be willing to revisit those assumptions constantly.”

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook) · Adriel Frederick

Jason Shah00:00:00

“The two things that I've seen be most successful would be, I think number one is actually understanding what a goal is or what somebody's kind of issue is with something, and then actually aligning those things in some way.”

Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy) · Jason Shah

Ken Norton00:00:00

“Part of what I think is pretty exciting about product management is you are a leader from day one in product management. There's leadership all over the place, but that's your job. You're a leader. You don't have any formal authority, but you're a leader. You're expected to lead.”

How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google · Ken Norton

Nickey Skarstad00:03:28

“Thank you. Thanks for having me.”

Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more · Nickey Skarstad

Manik Gupta00:30:00

“Being optimistic about technology is actually a useful trait as a product leader. If you're always skeptical about what technology can do, you'll miss the moments when it can truly change things.”

Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more · Manik Gupta

Cutting Room Floor

Guest insights on this topic that Lenny hasn't (yet) written about in his newsletters. Potential material for future posts.

Megan CookUnsynthesized

“What we put into place is something we call Fight Club. It's 30 minutes every week, and it's just for myself, my engineering, and my design leader; and we get together, and we know that we're going there to have a conflict.”

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira) · Megan Cook

Petra WilleUnsynthesized

“Getting promoted is way harder if you're not good at telling stories and rallying the team behind a shared goal. You usually achieve this through good storytelling techniques. I would consider it a bit of a career staller if you don't get to a decent level of storytelling and to a decent level of public speaking.”

How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People) · Petra Wille

Adriel FrederickUnsynthesized

“There's a tendency when you've been doing this for a while to assume that the decisions you've made in the past are still the right ones. But the world changes, your users change, and you have to be willing to revisit those assumptions constantly.”

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook) · Adriel Frederick

Jason ShahUnsynthesized

“The two things that I've seen be most successful would be, I think number one is actually understanding what a goal is or what somebody's kind of issue is with something, and then actually aligning those things in some way.”

Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy) · Jason Shah

Ken NortonUnsynthesized

“Part of what I think is pretty exciting about product management is you are a leader from day one in product management. There's leadership all over the place, but that's your job. You're a leader. You don't have any formal authority, but you're a leader. You're expected to lead.”

How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google · Ken Norton

Nickey SkarstadUnsynthesized

“Thank you. Thanks for having me.”

Manik GuptaUnsynthesized

“Being optimistic about technology is actually a useful trait as a product leader. If you're always skeptical about what technology can do, you'll miss the moments when it can truly change things.”