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From Physics to Product: The Importance of First Principles

How many of us have joined a new company and proposed a promising solution to a problem only to have it rejected with “we tried that n years ago and it didn’t work”? Or conversely, had a new executive join your company and repeat “here’s how we did things at my last company” ad nauseum? (I may or may not have been guilty of the latter in the past.) These are telltale signs of a surface level understanding. As Product Managers, and particularly as executives, we must be able to evaluate and convey the validity of ideas from first principles if we hope to maintain success across companies and over time.

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Leading the Way: Strategies for Success in 2024's Challenging PM Job Market

As product leaders, we are in a unique market that has shifted drastically in the past two years leading to a difficult job market for product leaders. We've gathered product leaders who have successfully navigated this tough market recently to share their practical insights. Join your fellow senior product leaders as our newly appointed Chief Product Officers and Vice Presidents of Product share their journey through job searching, negotiating offers, and settling into their new roles. Gain practical insights and strategies to excel in the competitive 2024 PM job market.

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Riffception: A Riff on Riffs

Discover the power of the "riff"—a quick, untemplatized writing approach to unblock your creativity and accelerate work. Learn how prioritizing content over perfection can help you share ideas more effectively, especially for Type A perfectionists. Get riffing today!

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Building Cross-Functional Teams in Product Management, Design and UX

Creating impactful user-facing products demands robust collaboration across product management, design, and UX research teams. However, the structure of these teams often introduces processes and power dynamics that hinder such collaboration. In this webinar, I aim to give product managers, designers, and UX researchers involved in user-facing projects insights and practical tools to foster a more collaborative, innovative, and productive team environment.

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Empathy for Product Managers

In "Articulating Design Decisions," Tom Greever emphasizes the often-overlooked need for product designers to have empathy towards stakeholders. Discover why understanding the deeper emotions and motivations of stakeholders is similarly crucial for Product Managers. Learn how building authentic, empathetic relationships with stakeholders can lead to superior product development and a more cohesive work environment.

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Even in this world, more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way.