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Product Mastery Now

For Product Managers and Innovators

Product Mastery Now Podcast

for you to make the move from product manager to product master.

Most Recent Episodes

356: Which of the 7 habits of creative people are you lacking – with Nathan Phillips

355: Tips for designing organizations for innovation – with Ben M. Bensaou, PhD

Special: Create Continuous Innovation in Your Organization – with Ash Maurya

This podcast helps you go from product manager to Product Master. Episodes are organized by the Product Mastery Roadmap so you can BEAT the Competition -- 4 levels of skills that take you from product manager to Product Master. The 4 levels are:

Build Your Base - foundational skills
Earn Professional Certification - increase confidence and influence
Apply Deep Dives - move to leadership
Transform the Organization - build a better organization

Build Your Base

Listen to gain the skills that take you from being a capable product manager to one that truly comprehends product management.

356: Which of the 7 habits of creative people are you lacking – with Nathan Phillips

355: Tips for designing organizations for innovation – with Ben M. Bensaou, PhD

Special: Create Continuous Innovation in Your Organization – with Ash Maurya

354: Agile Product Development – with Brian Cohn

353: Mastering change – with David Schonthal

TEI 352: Improve how you get customer insights – with Darshan Mehta

351: Journey to Product VP – with Liron Lifshitz-Yadin

350: Market segmentation and product pricing – with Dan Balcauski

349: How product managers can and should become innovation choreographers – with Dan McClure

Special: Are You a Product Manager or a Problem Manager – with Steve Johnson

348: How product managers can help to future-proof organizations – with Jonathan Brill

347: What most product managers get wrong about product management – with Grant Hunter

346: Building a product management group from scratch in a rapidly growing company – with Kenton Hansen

345: How to use Jobs-to-be-Done to be a market detective – with Dave Duncan, PhD

344: State of product management performance in 2021 – with Greg Geracie

343: How product managers can communicate to influence – with Tina Frey Clements

342: Conjoint the correct way – with Patty Yanes

341: Using the data warehouse to make better product decisions – with Jeremy Levy

340: Lean product development – with Steve Stucky

339: Overcome the challenges innovation leaders have – with Scott Kirsner

TEI 338: Better OKRs, with the person who wrote the original OKR book – with Christina Wodtke

TEI 337: An expanded perspective on UX to make better products – with Mark Baldino

TEI 336: Pricing software products right – with Ajit Ghuman

TEI 335: JTBD tips from a veteran practitioner – with Bob Moesta

TEI 334: Making product management effective regardless of the product emphasis in an organization – with Monika Murugesan

TEI 333: A framework for Jobs-to-be-Done – with Jay Haynes

TEI 332: Optimizing Scrum in remote teams – with Howard Sublett, Scrum Alliance

TEI 331: Everyday innovator obsessions – with Josh Linkner

TEI 330: The coming work paradigm shift – with Matt Coatney

TEI 329: Are your misconceptions about product management holding your career back? An interview by INDUSTRY

TEI 328: Getting started with Jobs-to-be-Done – with INDUSTRY and Mike Belsito

TEI 327: How product managers can make better products – with Heather Samarin & Vidya Dinamani

TEI 326: Future of product management – with Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia

TEI 325: 5 tools to create alignment, communicate better and build trust – with Stefano Mastrogiacomo, PhD

TEI 324: What product managers can do now to prepare for senior leadership roles – with Evan Roth

TEI 323: Product management insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon – with Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

TEI 322: First Time UX analysis for product managers – with Elizabeth Ferrao

TEI 321: How product managers can delight customers – with Chip Bell

TEI 320: Visual strategies to better position your product ideas – with Amy Balliett

TEI 319: Product Innovation Management – with Jerry Fix

TEI 318: The focus of product management—building right products or building products right? – with Narasimha Krishnakumar

TEI 317: Culture, teams, and leadership – with Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, PhD

TEI 316: Tools CPOs use – with Anup Yanamandra

TEI 315: Product Design and Development Tools – with Carlos Rodriguez

TEI 314: How to make your ideas thrive instead of die – with Shankar Achanta

TEI 313: Product Innovation Process – with Jean-Jacques Verhaeghe

TEI 312: Are you using empathy correctly as a product manager? – with Rob Volpe

TEI 311: Portfolio Management and the PDMA Body of Knowledge for Innovators and Product Managers – with Steve Atherton

TEI 310: Product managers emerge stronger through adversity – with Joseph Michelli, PhD

TEI 309: Product management strategy – with Allan Anderson, PhD

TEI 308: How innovators lead transformation – with Tendayi Viki, PhD

TEI 307: Introduction to the PDMA Body of Knowledge for product managers and innovators – with Allan Anderson, PhD

TEI 306: Accomplish twice as much in half the time – with Steve Glaveski

TEI 305: Become a product naming champ – with Alexandra Watkins

TEI 304: How to become an influential product manager – with Ken Sandy

TEI 303: A case study for getting the right people on a product team – with Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, PhD

TEI 302: From product manager to founder – with Ryan Frederick

TEI 301: Innovation hacks for product managers – with Scott Anthony

TEI 300: Off the cuff on product management – with Steve Johnson

TEI 299: Better product team performance by understanding introverts – with Jennifer Kahnweiler, PhD

TEI 298: How product managers can use appreciation to improve product teams – with Dr. Paul White

TEI 297: How to be a forever employable product manager – with Jeff Gothelf

TEI 296: Better product testing – with Luke Freiler

TEI 295: Do you have what it takes to be a great product manager? Results of the Product Team Performance study – with Greg Geracie

TEI 294: Crafting Customer Experience and Innovation with The CEO’s Time Machine – with Geoff & Zoe Thatcher

TEI 293: FAST Goals for better aligned product projects- with Jeannine Siviy

TEI 292: The essential skills for product manager doers – with Karen Holst

TEI 291: Marketing timing and trends impact product management – with Jerry Abiog

TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler

TEI 288: Design sprints for product managers – with John Zeratsky

TEI 287: How an insight became a lip balm for speakers – with Ginger King

TEI 285: What video storytelling can teach product managers – with Patrick Shelton

TEI 284: The Disney way of innovation – with Duncan Wardle

TEI 283: 2020 Summit Lessons Learned – with Chad McAllister

TEI 282: Do you have an innovator’s mindset to succeed as a product manager? – with Chuck Swoboda

TEI 281: The right way to use experiments to create better products more quickly – with Stefan Thomke

TEI 280: Learn how product managers should set product price – with Ben Malakoff

TEI 279: How product managers and leaders turn visionary thinking into breakthrough growth – with Mark Johnson

TEI 278: Creating the courage to succeed at anything – with 4-decade Olympian Ruben Gonzalez

TEI 277: 24+ speakers share strategies for product managers and VPs to have higher success – with Chad McAllister, PhD

TEI 276: How to have more influence by designing conversations to maximize meaning – with Daniel Stillman

TEI 275: Become a better problem solver by reframing the problem – with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

TEI 274: The mindset product managers need to breakthrough barriers – with Dana Wilde

TEI 273: How to find product opportunities, trends, and mega trends – with Jeremy Gutsche

TEI 272: How to create fearless innovation in your organization – with Alex Goryachev

TEI 269: Do this to not let your design sprints slump – with Douglas Ferguson

TEI 268: Why and how product managers can benefit from product communities – with Olga Andrienko

TEI 267: How companies make product decisions and what they need from product innovators – with Stephen Key

TEI 266: The many ways professional organizations help product managers – with Mark Adkins

TEI 265: A 6-part framework to make sense of your product projects – with Steve Johnson

TEI 264: How product managers can make better use of marketing – with Jill Soley

TEI 263: What product managers can learn from the creation of the AeroPro medical device – with Julie Charlestein

TEI 262: A look at this podcast through the lens of leadership coaching – with Russell Verhey

TEI 261: Maximizing project portfolio goal impact & ROI – with Mike Hannan

TEI 260: Proverbs for product managers and innovators- with Dr. Max Mckeown, PhD

TEI 259: Become indistractable and get more done better – with Nir Eyal

TEI 258: How product managers can work effectively with data scientists – with Felicia Anderson & Rich Mironov

TEI 257: What it takes to create a successful food product – with Dave Hirschkop

TEI 256: The right way to manage change that innovation brings – with Barbara Trautlein, PhD

TEI 255: The good and bad of being a product manager as an entrepreneur vs intrapreneur – with Montie Roland

TEI 254: The right way to use web-ethnography to learn about customers – with Bill McDowell

TEI 253: How product managers can influence quickly – with Bridget McMullan

TEI 252: Data does not speak for itself; It needs a story – with Nancy Duarte

TEI 251: Use Airbnb’s customer experience journey to create an outstanding experience for your products – with Joseph Michelli, PhD

TEI 250: High velocity innovation – with Katherine Radeka

TEI 249: Which is the most powerful of the 6 principles of influence – with Matt Barney, PhD

TEI 248: Do these things to make your presentations more effective – with Nils Davis

TEI 247: How to manage your career to get the promotion you deserve – with Farnoosh Brock

TEI 246: Spur your creativity with these ideation tools – with Chad McAllister, PhD

TEI 244: 44 ways product managers can test ideas – with David Bland

TEI 243: What product managers need to know about Scrum for hardware – with Paolo Sammicheli

TEI 241 Flashback: How product managers can conduct Voice of the Customer research- with Gerry Katz

TEI 240 Flashback: Understand What Customers Need Before Developing a Product – with Tony Ulwick

TEI 239 Flashback: Solving challenges organizations create with product management and innovation – with Rich Mironov

TEI 238 Flashback: Using Lean to Run Experiments and Deliver Customer Value-with Ash Maurya

TEI 237 Flashback: Effectively pitching your ideas and influencing others – with Nancy Duarte

TEI 236: The best tools for managing virtual product teams – with Jonathan Soares

TEI 235: Better decision-making for product managers using the 11 Laws of Trading – with Agustin Lebron

TEI 234: 3-ways to grow your innovation capital for more product & career success – with Nathan Furr

TEI 233: Everyone wants more agility in their product process and this is how to get it – with Colin Palombo

TEI 232: Using product roadmaps correctly, Part 3 (Portfolio Management) – with Bruce McCarthy

TEI 231: 75 examples of innovation in well-known brands – with Giles Lury

TEI 229: Do you have the best entrepreneurial skills for product management – with Michelle Duval

TEI 228: How to lead innovation, part 2 – with Mike Mitchell, PhD

TEI 227: IoT is coming to a product near you, maybe even yours: what product managers need to know – with Daniel Elizalde

TEI 226: Creating product roadmaps, Part 2 – with Bruce McCarthy

TEI 224: Integrating Scrum into other processes including Stage-Gate – with Mike Cohn

TEI 223: Applying JTBD to make products customers love – with Brian Rhea

TEI 222: Presenting new products at trade shows and events – with Amy McWhirter

TEI 221: How product managers can determine the price of a new product – with Patrick Campbell

TEI 220: What makes a good product manager & who shouldn’t be one – with Marc Abraham

TEI 217: 50% of what makes product managers successful that most are missing – with Paresh Shah

TEI 216: Avoid disruption and create new value for customers – with Thales Teixeira, PhD

TEI 215: The best way product managers should use the Value Proposition Canvas – with Alan Smith

TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

TEI 213: Doing things that don’t scale is the secret to successful product management – with Abdo Riani

TEI 212: Lean-driven innovation for product managers – with Norbert Majerus

TEI 211: Most product managers are not using surveys correctly and how to fix that – with Matt Champagne, PhD.

TEI 210: Make time to accomplish what you need to today- with John Zeratsky

TEI 209: Predictive analytics for product managers – with Brian Brinkmann

TEI 208: Use Projectopia to focus your projects, prioritize features and meet deadlines – with Andy Rosic

TEI 207: How product managers become change managers – with Amy Radin

TEI 206: Remarkable product VPs and their reasons to improve team performance – Chad McAllister, PhD

TEI 205: Create a happy team, make a better product – with Kris Boesch

TEI 201: Lessons from Nikola Tesla on how successful product managers must negotiate with society – with Bernie Carlson, PhD

TEI 200: Deliver great products that customers love – with Valerio Zanini

TEI 198: How product managers can influence the next generation of innovators – with Kyle Markland

TEI 196: The messy middle of new product projects – with Scott Belsky

TEI 195: The Henry Ford for Product Managers – with Kristen Gallerneaux, PhD

TEI 193: Mistakes new (and not so new) product managers should avoid – with Cole Mercer

TEI 192: Interviewing users & the art of asking the right questions – with Rachel Wynn

TEI 191: How to create and share product vision – with Jon Hensley

TEI 189: Building UX in product teams – with Sam Horodezky

TEI 188: What product managers should do and not do when transitioning to a new team or organization – with Gavin Feuer

TEI 187: Seven ways acting techniques can help product managers excel – with Alison Kemp

TEI 186: How product managers convince their managers to pay for training – with Matt Burns

TEI 185: Creating product love – with Todd Olson

TEI 184: What leaders need to understand about product management and what product managers need to understand about the business – with Kirsten Butzow

TEI 183: Bad habits experienced product managers should avoid-with Alicia Dixon

TEI 182: What Sales wants from product managers – with Ian Moyse

TEI 181: Managing a product during the Maturity phase of the product life cycle – with Janna Bastow

TEI 180: Why and how APIs should be managed as a product – with Bryan Hicks

TEI 179: The specific steps for finding product-market fit – with Dan Olsen

TEI 178: How to create a guided directed learning group to accelerate product management in your organization – with John Spero

TEI 177: Creating a hybrid Agile Stage-Gate process – with Colin Palombo

TEI 175: Building B2B products – with Blair Reeves & Benjamin Gaines

TEI 174: Voice of the Customer tools product managers use – with Colleen Knuff

TEI 172: Apple’s product development process and secrets to success – with John Carter

TEI 170: From concept to market leader – with product manager Jimmy Hooker

TEI 169: How to make product roadmaps not dangerous – with Bruce McCarthy

TEI 168: Roles and responsibilities of product managers – with Steve Johnson

TEI 167: Value Innovation in 10 steps for product managers – with Dick Lee, Ph.D.

TEI 166: How product managers innovate – with Dick Lee, Ed Wolf, and John Chattaway

TEI 165: 2018 Product Management Insights – with Nis Frome

TEI 164: How qualitative research drives product management & the next generation Hyundai Santa Fe – with Heather Kluter

TEI 163: Rookie mistakes in market research product managers must avoid – with Gerry Katz

TEI 161: Revisiting the GE Appliance innovation lab and extending it to your product – with Taylor Dawson

TEI 159: Don’t make the customer feel anxious. The failure of Crystal Pepsi — with Kyle Murray, PhD

TEI 157: Big topics product managers encounter – with Suzanne Abate

TEI 156: Medical device product management – with Mike Lawless

TEI 155: How product managers can get pricing right – with Tim Smith, PhD

TEI 154: Pitfalls that can trap new product managers – with Aero Wong

TEI 153: 3D printing and product management – with John Baliotti

TEI 150: What executives want from product managers – with Scott Propp

TEI 148: Win-Loss analysis for product managers – with Mike Smart

TEI146: Who product managers focus on for designing great products – with Brian Baker

TEI 142: Platforms and innovation for product managers – with Larry Keeley

TEI 140: Market validation in 3 steps – with Bryan Elanko

TEI 135: The essential 4-step product innovation process based on Design Thinking – with Gordon Stannis

TEI 133: History as a tool for product managers & innovators – with Scott Bowden

TEI 132: Integrating Lean Startup and Stage-Gate – with Mark Adkins

TEI 131: Charting change for product managers-with Braden Kelley

TEI 130: Avoiding product management dogma – with Chris Spagnuolo

TEI 129: How product managers can better work with Sales – with Keith Hawk

TEI 127: B2B product management – with Jeff Lash

TEI 125: Product management communities of practice – with Martin Eriksson

TEI 122: The elements of value for product managers – with Paul Jackson

TEI 120: Product development and management at Snap-on – with Ben Brenton, PhD

TEI 119: The 17th Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey results – with Rebecca Kalogeris

TEI 118: Tools for data-driven product management – with Shah Ahmed

TEI 116: How to transition into product management – with Charles Du

TEI 115: 6 areas of expertise effective product managers need – with Steve Johnson

TEI 114: New product managers share insights about the role and making the transition into product management – with 3 millennial product managers

TEI 113: Innovation tools – with Evan Shellshear

TEI 111: How SPICES help product managers build insanely great products – with David Fradin

TEI 110: How GE’s FirstBuild creates products – with Taylor Dawson

TEI 108: Communicating design in product management – with Latif Nanji

TEI 107: Create group flow for radical innovation – with Laurie Buss

TEI 106: Jobs to be done – with Tony Ulwick

TEI 103: How Karcher developed a new product that captured the market – with Bill Ott

TEI 101: 9 traits of highly innovative people- with Tamara Kleinberg

TEI 096: Conjoint analysis for product managers- with Brian Ottum, PhD

TEI 095: Product line roadmapping for product managers – with Paul O’Connor

TEI 094: Creating product roadmaps for product managers – with Jim Semick

TEI 093: Identifying the ideal customer – with Tom Schwab

TEI 092: Innovation mantras from R&D-with Dana A. Oliver

TEI 091: How product managers can influence virtual teams – with Hassan Osman

TEI 087: Metrics and successful product management – with Saeed Khan

TEI 086: Manufacturing serendipity, open innovation, and product management – with Kevin Stark, PhD

TEI 085: Managing product teams – with Todd Dewett, PhD

TEI 082: Design Thinking and Action Learning for product managers – with Chuck Appleby, PhD

TEI 081: Innovation Wars & creating products customers want – with Scott Bales

TEI 079: Cross the chasm using the target market model – with Chasm Institute’s Michael Eckhardt

TEI 078: Traditional vs Agile project management for product managers–with Chuck Cobb

TEI 077: Scaling lean product management – with Ash Maurya

TEI 075: Building product lifecycle excellence – with Kimberly Wiefling

TEI 074: Content Marketing for Product Managers – with Jerod Morris

TEI 073: The pulse of product management and 4 skills that match a 25% increase in pay – with Rebecca Kalogeris

TEI 072: The 7Ps of successful consumer products – with designer and CEO Tracy Hazzard

TEI 071: How product managers can conduct Voice of the Customer research- with Gerry Katz

TEI 069: 4 reasons you should expand to an educational market- with Product Manager Bill Cullen

TEI 067: Master the product manager interview – with interviewing coach Charles Du

TEI 066: Conducting customer research – with co-founder Jane Boutelle

TEI 065: Keeping innovation simple – with Brad Barbera

TEI 064: Help your product team go fast using Lean Startup practices – with Tristan Kromer

TEI 063: Product management in large and small companies – with Ellen Chisa

TEI 062: Stage-Gate, agile Stage-Gate, and innovation tools used by 80% of the Fortune 1000 – with Mitch Kemp of Stage-Gate International

TEI 060: Design Thinking for greater innovation – with IBM Design Director Karel Vredenburg

TEI 057: Applying the Jobs-to-be-Done Framework – with Chris Spiek

TEI 055: Solving challenges organizations create with product management and innovation – with Rich Mironov

TEI 054: 5 Steps for selecting the best product ideas – with SVP Peter Duggan

TEI 051: Creating Strategic Narratives and Imagineering Your Innovation Process – with Joe Tankersley

TEI 050: Use design heuristics to improve idea generation – with Seda Yilmaz, PhD

TEI 049: The right and wrong way to use a business case – with Steven Haines

TEI 048: Guiding Innovation at IBM and other Large Organizations – with CINO Linda Bernardi

TEI 047: Lessons from Design Thinking for Using Design in the FFE – with Giulia Calabretta, PhD.

TEI 045: Understand What Customers Need Before Developing a Product – with Tony Ulwick

TEI 044: The 2015 Challenges in Product Management Findings – with Brian Lawley

TEI 043: Metrics for New Product Development – with Allan Anderson, PhD

TEI 042: Applying User Experience Creates Products with High Value – with Larry Marine

TEI041: Using Story & Prototyping in a Design Thinking Framework – with Designer Mark Zeh

TEI 040: How LEGO is Using Customer Communities for Product Innovation – with Marc-Andre Bazergui

TEI 039: What Product Managers Need to Know about IP Protection – with Dan Brean

TEI 037: Using Games to Help Your Group Create Amazing Products – with Luke Hohmann

TEI 036: Product Development Lessons for New and Experienced Software Product Managers – with Senior VP Jeremy Dillingham

TEI 034: 6 Processes for Generating Ideas for Radical Innovations-with Michal Herzenstein

TEI 031: 4th Annual Study of Product Team Performance – with Greg Geracie

TEI 030: How Product Managers Create Products that Hook Customers–with Nir Eyal

TEI 029: Reflections on Being a Serial Innovator in a Large Organization–with Steve Pierz at Caterpillar

TEI 026: How to Design Meaningful Products by Focusing on User Experience – with Mark Capper

TEI 023: How Lead Users Guide Product Management at a Golf Training Device Company – with CEO Sam Froggatte

TEI 021: A Skunk Works for Creating Products and also How to Make Product Tradeoffs – with Eric P. Rose

TEI 020: How to Get a Product Management Job – with expert interview coach Gayle Laakmann McDowell

TEI 019: Applying the 5 Steps of Design Thinking – with Entrepreneur and Vango Founder Ethan Appleby

TEI 018: Product Management through the Eyes of a Cartoonist – with Kriti Vichare

TEI 016: Another New Podcast for Product Managers–with Nis Frome

TEI 015: Using the 4 Lenses of Innovation – with 2015 Global Leader of Innovation Award winner Rowan Gibson

TEI 014: How to Break Into Product Management or Change Industries-with Product Manager Lee Martucci

TEI 013: Getting the Product Manager / Developer Job You Want–with Recruiter Paul Freed

TEI 012: Applying Lean Product Development for a 50% Time Reduction- with CEO David Paulson

TEI 011: Building the product management community one meetup at a time – with Cindy Solomon

TEI 010: Using Lean to Run Experiments and Deliver Customer Value-with Ash Maurya

TEI 009: How a non-profit used an idea management system to create life-saving products–with Geoff Peters

TEI 008: Customer Research Approaches – with Market Researcher Brian Ottum, PhD

TEI 007: Simple Steps for Using the Minimal Viable Product Approach to Create a Product Customers Love–with Andrew Warner

TEI 006: Studies In Organizational and Open Innovation – with Researcher and Professor Karla Phlypo

TEI 005: How Relying on Aggregate Marketing Data Can Doom New Product Development – with CEO George Farkas

TEI 004: Use “What does that mean to you?” and Other Practices for Understanding What Customers Want – with Louise Musial

TEI 003: Innovation Lessons-Learned Creating StudioPress–Test Feasibility, Identify Trends, and More – with Brian Gardner

TEI 002: The Product Manager’s Two Most Powerful Questions: Ask “What Else” and “Why” for Understanding Users – with Industrial Designer Darshan Rane

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Earn Professional Certification

Professional certification gives you confidence. It is the critical step for increasing your influence over product strategy. Listen to help you earn professional certifications from PDMA and AIPMM, the only two international professional associations for product managers.

TEI 183: Bad habits experienced product managers should avoid-with Alicia Dixon

TEI 035: AIPMM is the Professional Association for Product Managers – with Therese Padilla

TEI 027: If You are a Product Manager, You Need to Know about PDMA–with Charlie Noble

TEI 017: Creating the ProdBOK – with Product Manager Greg Geracie

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Apply Deep Dives

Listen to the skills that you need to move from product manager to product leader. Product managers with these skills earn 25% higher pay and are more likely to be in senior leadership roles.

TEI 286: Get the 5-step process that is changing how innovation works in organizations across the world – with Pete Newell

TEI 271 Flashback: How product managers look & sound like leaders – with Tom Henschel

TEI 245: How the best product managers make better use of their time – with John Cutler

TEI 242: How to be your best self as a product manager and all aspects of life – with Dr. Nima

TEI 230: Optimal health and performance for product managers – with Dr. Gus Vickery

TEI 225: Create a movement for a product – with Greg Satell

TEI 219: How Cisco innovates to beat competitors and deliver value – with Alex Goryachev

TEI 204: Do you know if your Go-to-Market strategy is ready to go – with Mike Smart

TEI 203: Portfolio Management – with Roger Warburton, PhD

TEI 202: How smart product leaders are leading transformation in their organization – with Kyle Nel

TEI 199: A panel discussion with women product VPs and Directors – moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs

TEI 194: A Deluxe case study for disruptive innovation before being disrupted – with Chris Clausen

TEI 190: The 6 dimensions of top achievers- with Arthur Carmazzi

TEI 176: How product managers can join the meaning revolution – with Fred Kofman

TEI 173: The CORE connective skills of product management – with Matt LeMay

TEI 171: How any organization can leverage Design Thinking to produce change-with Thomas Lockwood & Edgar Papke

TEI 162: How product managers can influence people – with Tom Henschel

TEI 160: How LEGO and others use a low-risk, high-value approach to product management – with David Robertson, PhD

TEI 158: Effective virtual meeting skills for product managers – with Dan Hoffman

TEI 152: The successful product manager is the self-aware product manager – with Tasha Eurich, PhD

TEI 151: What product managers should know about agile strategy – with Dan Montgomery

TEI 149: How to effectively lead innovators, part 1 – with Mike Mitchell, PhD

TEI 147: Making organizations phenomenal – with Joseph Michelli, PhD

TEI 145: From product manager to leader – with Ken Lane

TEI 144: What product managers can learn from Amanda Brinkman and Robert Herjavec – The Small Business Revolution movement

TEI 141: How product managers can better lead change – with Barbara Trautlein, PhD

TEI 139: Crisis management for product managers – with Jim Parham

TEI 138: The science behind success for product managers – with Eric Barker

TEI 137: How product managers look & sound like leaders – with Tom Henschel

TEI 134: 4 steps for building an innovation ecosystem- with Dave Oventhal, DBA

TEI 128: Creating better product teams – with Nate Walkingshaw

TEI 126: Mapping innovation – with Greg Satell

TEI 124: Business design for product managers – with Jay Peters

TEI 123: A product management view of Value Proposition Design – with Alex Osterwalder

TEI 121: How top product managers launch awesome products and build successful teams- with Richard Banfield

TEI 117: How Pitney Bowes built a Product Management Council – with Felicia Anderson

TEI 104: Storytelling for innovation – with Michael Margolis

TEI 102: Executive coaching for product managers – with Evan Roth

TEI 099: Speaking with confidence and gravitas – with Caroline Goyder

TEI 098: When product managers’ good ideas are not enough-with Samuel Bacharach

TEI 097: How product managers pitch and sell ideas to managers – with Chris Westfall

TEI 090: Agile product portfolio management- with Brent Barton

TEI 089: Intelligent disobedience for product managers-with Bob McGannon

TEI 084: Product portfolio management – with Carrie Nauyalis

TEI 080: Innovate like a startup – with Michael Docherty

TEI 076: Effectively pitching your ideas and influencing others – with Nancy Duarte

TEI 070: Innovation and product management at Chick-fil-A – with Steve Nedvidek

TEI 068: Making product concepts easy to understand- with Lee LeFever

TEI 059: Leading product teams and scaling a business- with Mike Paschal, Product EVP

TEI 056: 5 steps to becoming an innovative company – with innovation VP Michael Wynblatt

TEI 052: The Simple Approach for all Product Managers and Innovators to be Effective Communicators – with Curtis Fletcher

TEI 046: Building a Global Innovation Capability at a Large Enterprise – with Caterpillar Director of Innovation Ken Gray

TEI 033: Fostering Innovation via a Startup-With Tim Bates

TEI 032: Creating a Corporate Culture for Design Thinking-with Nathan Rosenberg

TEI 028: Creating an Innovation Group in a Large Organization–with VP of Innovation Jeff Honious

TEI 024: How to Create an Innovation Culture – with Braden Kelley

TEI 022: How 3M Triggers Innovation through Organizational Development – with practitioners Kimberly Johnson and A.B. Reynolds

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Transform the Organization

Product managers are unique in organizations. You work across more functions than anyone. Your influence has grown. You see the organization as a system. Move from architecting better products to architecting a better organization.

TEI 143: Organization performance improvement for product managers – with Adam Cohen

TEI 136: Improving organizations with Design Thinking and Positive Change Leadership – with Gene Beyt

TEI 109: How product managers can design the organization they want – with John Latham, PhD

TEI061: Product managers are uniquely prepared to transform organizations for greater success – with John Latham, PhD

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Special

Sometimes episodes don't fit into the BEAT the Competition categories above. They are listed here.

Special: Create Continuous Innovation in Your Organization – with Ash Maurya

Special: Are You a Product Manager or a Problem Manager – with Steve Johnson

TEI 197: Small Business Revolution Series 3 – with Cam Potts

TEI 105: Highlights from valuable 2016 interviews with savvy product management insiders – with Chad McAllister, PhD

TEI 100: Celebrating 100 episodes for product managers – with host Chad McAllister