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What would it take for product leaders to succeed in 2021?
Product management is a highly collaborative role, requiring coordination with many teams and business functions — sales & marketing, customer service, market research, user research, tech-engineers, partners, external stakeholders, and so on. With pandemic hitting in 2020, this role is forced to be performed from home/ remotely and poses a unique challenge for product leaders to move things forward efficiently.
To get a view of product leadership in 2021, I recently had the honor of speaking with four great leaders in the product management community. I learned that each has their own perspective, but there are some common themes in what thought leaders in this domain are thinking.
Starting with a high-level view of what it takes to be a product leader, Tarun Upaday, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor, laid out the five skills that a leader needs to succeed. This provides a deep insight into how to overcome the challenges of being a Product Leader.
“I think there are five skills that together define success (for product leaders in tech-startup):
First will be having good design taste.
Number two will be business insights or the ability to make good business decisions.
Third, which is becoming increasingly more important…
