Congrats! You have just been promoted, or you were hired into a new product leadership role. That’s super exciting, and also the best time to make an intentional plan for how to succeed in it. The first three months count in setting you up for success (or learning fast, that this particular role is notContinue reading “Your first 90 days in your new product leadership role”
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The core Jobs To Be Done for a product leader
Whenever I coach a newly promoted product leader one of the first questions they ask is what the job of a product leader even is. They often feel very insecure about their new responsibilities and lost as to where to get started and whose input to trust. Product Leaders are often advised to develop aContinue reading “The core Jobs To Be Done for a product leader”
Advancing your product career
For the past six months, I’ve been doing interviews with product people who successfully got promoted in their product career. My hypothesis was (and is) that gender plays a role in how you advance in your product career and also in how you experience your product roles. I spoke to 25 people identifying female andContinue reading “Advancing your product career”
How to find your authentic leadership style?
When you are female and leading in Tech, you will find some of the leadership behaviors of your successful white male peers in conflict with what you care about. Their leadership style works for them, yet it is simply not what you want to copy or how you want to be as a leader. YourContinue reading “How to find your authentic leadership style?”
The art of self-leadership
Leadership starts with leading yourself. Leadership ultimately is about co-creating something with a group of people who want to shape the world around them in an agreed upon direction. The role of leaders in that space is about creating the space for collaboration, positively influencing and empowering the relationships in the space, and making sureContinue reading “The art of self-leadership”
Let’s talk about power!
I remember well, when me and my technical Co-Lead did some work on values at the beginning of our working relationship. We got our results from a survey on personal values, and he was totally surprised to see that I ranked very low on valuing “power”. He had, up until that point, been convinced, thatContinue reading “Let’s talk about power!”
Why do you need presence to build great products?
Let’s maybe start by looking at some of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to build great products: I could keep going with that list, and I know it well because I have made every mistake on that list at some point. Which brings me to the quality of presence, which is lackingContinue reading “Why do you need presence to build great products?”
Building a sense of interconnection into a team
We all know that sense of shared experience when we sit around a campfire with a group of people. Teams are also made of multiple people coming together to jointly go after a specific goal. And very often new teams struggle to figure out how to actually arrive at a sense of “we” as aContinue reading “Building a sense of interconnection into a team”
Learning about Leadership
Learning and curiosity are intimately linked. When I started to get curious about leadership, it began with powerful questions I asked myself. This naturally led to finding insights and answers – and learning based on my own curiosity was a ton of fun, too! Over the years I have also found, that it’s best notContinue reading “Learning about Leadership”
Questions worth pondering
A great question can function like a compass. I recently hosted two workshop experiments. One on learning about product leadership, and a similar one on learning about leadership. My learning journeys about product and leadership both started with me at some point asking myself good questions about what makes a good product manager and leader.Continue reading “Questions worth pondering”
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