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🕺👋 Season 2 of Product Leader's Journey is in the books! So grateful to these amazing leaders 👇 for giving their time and sharing insightful stories with a lot of humility and candor. Incredible conversations. Thank you all for listening and sharing forward! 🙏 You can catch these episodes here: https://lnkd.in/gf9hJjWh, and your favorite place for podcasts. A short summary below: 1️⃣ Rich Mironov - Author, The Art of Product Management Rich talks about what product leaders owe their teams, merchandizing product work, and prioritization being a political problem. If you know Rich, you also know to expect his trademark brand of dry humor and wit!  https://lnkd.in/gXg-nvDw 2️⃣ Amanda Richardson - CEO, CoderPad Amanda is on a mission to fix hiring by focusing on demonstrable skills and not resumes. Her personal mantra: Put your hand up and say Yes to everything. Believe in the possible. Believe in figuring it out.  https://lnkd.in/gy98byW2 3️⃣ Donald Hasson - CPO Dashlane Donald talks about the “beautiful constraints” of product development - time, scope, resources, quality and how to balance them. He shares insights on when does it make sense for a product organization to have Product Ops.  https://lnkd.in/gG8G5h4K 4️⃣ Al Zollar - Board Member, IBM, Nasdaq, BNY Mellon Al looks back at his distinguished career of 34 years in IBM as President of Lotus, GM of Tivoli and IBM iSeries product lines. He breaks down in crystal clear teams how to be the true "CEO of the Product", based on his actual experience as the product manager for DB2 early in his career.   https://lnkd.in/gGEG3Med 5️⃣ Chris Johnson - CEO, Artisanal Talent Chris has one important advice about your career: play career chess and not checkers. Listen to him explain what it means. He shares insights on crafting a strong narrative, talking about weak spots on the resume, and how to work with executive recruiters. https://lnkd.in/gDmnGfVm 6️⃣ Aleks Bass, M.A - CPO, Typeform Aleks has spent decades in the market/customer research space working at Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey and now at Typeform. She shares advice on how to navigate the first 30/60/90 days in a new role, addressing conflict and how to provide feedback that doesn't feel like passing judgement. https://lnkd.in/gshXfyMx 7️⃣ Himanshu Palsule - CEO, Cornerstone OnDemand Himanshu walks the talk when he speaks about the importance of being humble and vulnerable, and how to say “I don’t know”.   https://lnkd.in/ga3rBMau Subscribe to the show! Season 3 in a couple of weeks!

🤷♂️ No one can escape having to say the three magic words, "I Don't Know" !! What happens after you say them? Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, has a very useful insight. Check it out below.

🔟 If you know of #productmanagers who might benefit from this, please share forward. Gracious of Rich Mironov to extend an offer to fans of Product Leader's Journey - Discount code RAHUL10 (for 10% less) for the next cohort of Rich's course "Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder". Audience is PMs thinking about career paths, internal vs external promotions, and whether Director-level roles would be a good fit. The next cohort starts in July with a small group of peers, lots of real-world discussion! 👉 Details, dates, times at: https://lnkd.in/gwNZdhg2 👇 Check out his episode on the show

👋 Hey all! Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, is my latest guest on Product Leader's Journey. Cornerstone provides a workforce agility platform to identify skills gaps and development opportunities in organizations. Himanshu has more than 35 years of diverse experience leading global organizations. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he was President of Epicor where he was responsible for managing vertical businesses and overseeing product operations. He was previously CTO and Head of Strategy at Sage Software. Himanshu touches upon a number of important topics in this episode that will make you reflect and think deeply, and he does it through stories! 🔸 Learning to live in your own skin and recalibrating yourself 🔸 Concentric circles of ideas - Control, Influence, Interest 🔸 Key trait when you have a seat at the table: Humility 🔸 What is important when you have to say “I don’t know” 🔸 Going beyond the cliche to make customer obsession real 🔸 What does it really mean to have a flat organization 🔸 What does a future-ready Product Manager look like and much more! 👉 Catch this episode on: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gM-Vs595 Apple: https://lnkd.in/gPiGgRC2 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g3k7eB2p

Why do people not feel comfortable providing feedback? Aleks Bass, M.A, Chief Product Officer of Typeform, lists what's ineffective about the feedback culture in companies. I love how Aleks sees feedback as a temperature check! Check it out👇 and also the full conversation on Product Leader's Journey at: https://lnkd.in/gshXfyMx

Product managers, designers, engineers who are successful have an "impact transcending ability", according to Aleks Bass, M.A, Chief Product Officer of Typeform. Learn what she means by that in this short clip. The full conversation on the Product Leader's Journey pod is at: https://lnkd.in/gshXfyMx #productmanagement

This is insightful especially for B2B product managers. What has been your experience in building trust with GTM teams (sales, customer success, marketing) when it comes to getting time with customers? If you are on the GTM side, what do you wish product managers did better? Love to know! Thank you!

💥 🎙 Hey everyone, back with a new episode of Product Leader's Journey with Aleks Bass, M.A, Chief Product Officer of Typeform. Aleks has over two decades experience in the field of market research, having led products at Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), SurveyMonkey and now at Typeform. Early in her career, she led market intelligence and market research efforts at Kelley Blue Book, Farmers Insurance and DIRECTV. So who better than Aleks to learn about market research! In this episode, we talk about: ★ The evolution of market research ★ What we should learn about how our products serve customers ★ Overlapping across product, engineering, design for maximum impact ★ Overcoming skepticism some executives have about customer surveys ★ A framework for the first 30-60-90 days ★ Building clarity about how to address conflict ★ How to give effective feedback ➕ ... much more I enjoyed recording this episode with Aleks. You can listen to it here: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gwr23-Fr Apple: https://lnkd.in/gXq_n8dU Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g7-4jufh

👋 Do you play Career Chess or Checkers? Learn from Chris Johnson, cofounder and managing partner of Artisanal Talent, and my latest guest on Product Leader's Journey. I enjoyed recording this episode, and hope you enjoy listening to it! Chris shares deep insights on how he works with clients and candidates. He also shares advice on how to be deliberate and thoughtful about mapping one's career journey. Key highlights: 🔸 Case Study of a CPO Search 🔸 How do accomplished executive candidates stand out 🔸 Hiring trends - FAANG candidates, Domain relevance 🔸 Wartime and Peacetime leaders 🔸 How recruiters assess candidates for "fit" 🔸 How recruiters think about exceptions to the job spec 🔸 How can candidates craft a strong narrative 🔸 How to balance the use of "I" vs "We" in interviews 🔸 How to talk about weak spots on the resume 🔸 How to build relationships with exec recruiters 🔸 Playing Career Chess vs Checkers 🔸 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in exec searches Artisanal Talent is a highly specialized boutique executive search firm known for building some of tech’s most talented executive teams. Chris leads the Product and Engineering Leaders Practice, and is one of the most highly sought-after search consultants in the field for these critical roles at tier-1, high profile, VC backed and public companies. Over the past few years, Chris has completed Product and Engineering searches for Rippling, Notion, Rubrik, Airtable, ServiceNow, Databricks, Figma, UiPath, Confluent, MuleSoft, Starburst, GitLab, Splunk, New Relic, Elastic, dbt Labs, Loom, and more. Listen now 👇 - YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gcxwxnTk - Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g8_zdjR6 - Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gjPzKwNn - Resources: https://lnkd.in/gDmnGfVm (48 min)

🎙 🎧 All things #productleadership & #executiverecruiting with Chris Johnson, Founder & Managing Partner of Artisanal Talent! That's the next episode of Product Leader's Journey which drops this coming week. In this short, Chris talks about the relevance of domain experience in hiring. We cover many important topics in the full episode about how to craft a well structured narrative about your experience, addressing weak spots on the resume, and more! Watch this space!