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Vectors Behind Winning Products, Part 2: Product Truths and Quibb Lessons

Quibb Founder, Sandi MacPherson, discusses product truths, and how good products do not always win in the real world and why

Best Practices

Quibb Founder on The Vectors Behind Winning Products – Environmental Science to Product

Quibb Founder on the start to her product career, startups, and how she went from studying Environmental Science to Product management

Building an Innovative Culture: The DEL Model

Gibson Biddle, Fmr Netflix Product VP, on the DEL model in order to create a unique company culture that you can maintain.

Building an Innovative Culture: Netflix Culture Deck

Read Gibson Biddle's, Fmr Netflix Product VP, article that discusses Netflix culture- how it was developed, maintained, and reinforced.

Managing Workplace Distractions: Understanding Distraction and Internal Triggers

Nir Eyal on internal triggers that lead to distractions and why one should identify the root causes for discomfort to become indistractable.

Managing Workplace Distractions: Hacks to Become Indistractable.

Nir Eyal talks about environmental hacks to fight against distractions and the big four strategies designed to keep you indistractable.

Bestselling Author, Nir Eyal, on Managing Workplace Distractions

Nir Eyal on behavioral design psychology and how this concept outlined and defined how healthy interactions with products should look like.

Working Through Distractions With Super Focus: Using Tools and Pacts To Your Advantage

Bestselling Author Nir Eyal discusses how to work through distractions by using tools and pacts to keep you focused while you're working.

Working Through Distractions With Super Focus: The Relationship Between Traction and Distraction

Bestselling Author Nir Eyal discusses what distraction really means in practicality, and how the opposite of distraction is traction.

Bestselling Author Nir Eyal on Working Through Distractions With Super Focus

Nir Eyal shares how to work through distractions with super focus. He summarizes his hooked model for products, and his book “Indistractable.”

Design Great Products

Products Meet Culture: Product Goals and Establishing Value

Sharon Plasser on the importance of knowing your goals as a PM and how to use those goals to help you navigate through the company.

Sam’s Club Product Lead on Product Meets Culture

Sams Club Product Lead, Sharon Plasser, shares key principles for product managers for navigating complexities in established organizations.

Future Development for AI/ML Solutions

Review the future of where AI/ML tech is heading in making an impact on product development with Credit Suisse Labs CEO Jacob Sisk.

Use Cases For AI/ML In Society

Learn about the best use cases for utilizing AI/ML tech to improve society-at-large from Credit Suisse Labs CEO Jacob Sisk.

Credit Suisse Labs CEO on Using AI/ML to Build Smarter Products

Credit Suisse Labs CEO Jacob Sisk defines AI/ML attributes - similarities/differences and how they make an impact on product development.

Products That Count Crew Spotlight: Mark C. Pydynowski

Crew member Mark Pydynowski shares his perspective on hosting podcasts and talks about what goes into building great products.

Scientific Products: Healthcare Quality Standards

For a healthcare startup, QA is vital for scientific products. You must set the bar high to ensure your customer remains the primary concern.

Modern Fertility CEO on Building Scientific Products

Scientific products are developed with a specific plan in mind. However, the unexpected event is what can unlock innovation.

Company Pivot: Navigate It Like A Pro

Product managers and leaders must guide teams though any company pivot. Practice, learn and live through change with these effective strategies.

Products That Count Crew Spotlight: Jessica Chen Riolfi

Jessica Chen Riolfi talks about building great products - our Head of Chapter at Products That Count San Jose & Head of Product at Earnin.

Go-To-Market Strategy

Product Marketing

Pandora Product Lead on Building Digital Marketing Products

Pandora Product Lead William White on opportunities & challenges for digital marketing products to enhance traditional marketing practices

Systems Thinking: The Societal Impact of Social Media

The impact of social media requires careful study and positive interventions to prevent future development of toxic solutions

AI Products: Current Scenarios, Future Challenges

Some big misconceptions about AI products are rooted in their present capabilities and what needs to be learned to enable future innovation.

AI Products: Machine Learning Applications

Specific applications & development for ML in AI products are impacted by availability of previous algorithms or need to build from scratch.

Artefact Creative Lead on Systems Thinking Meets Product

In systems thinking, brands consider the societal impact of their product. This approach goes beyond use and experience into outcome.

Capital One Managing Product VP on Building Smarter AI Products

Hype around AI products is often overblown or misunderstood and does not represent its impact on building new products.

Products That Count Crew Spotlight: Don Woods

Podcast host Don Woods, a leading PM at Envoy, shares his perspective on product management and building meaningful solutions.

Product Loyalty: The Power of Company Culture

When fully embraced, company culture becomes a powerful factor in driving product loyalty and ensuring quality product-market fit.

Slack Product Lead on Product Meets Improv

Applying lessons from improv enables product teams to expand their soft skills by adapting to a variety of unexpected situations or demands.

Use Cases For AI: Someday vs. No Way

Understand opportunities and limitations for AI solutions by evaluating how input data is organized and target product audiences

Technology

Jane.ai Founder on The Facts (and Myths) of AI

AI is the hottest trend in software development & continues to drive the potential for ground-breaking innovation to new heights.

Products That Count Crew Spotlight: Gaurav Hardikar

It's time to bring you closer to the people who have built the Products That Count community! Meet Brilliant Product Director Gaurav Hardikar.

Disney Product Lead on The Future of Digital Products

The new trendsetters for digital products in entertainment don't have to deal with technical debt. No "the way things have always been done".

Best Practices

JUUL Labs fmr CPO on Board Deck Best Practices

The right deck enables product leaders to communicate their priorities to board members with direct buy-in from the CEO and executive team.

Brilliant Product Director on The Dharma of Product Management

Product management functions perform better when they are grounded in core values that serve as a guide to drive operational excellence.

Complex Products: Understanding The Food Journey

Managing complex products is a challenging opportunity for product teams to optimize user experiences that commonly include many pain points.

GetUpside CEO on The Business of Product Management

Product management drives meaningful business results by connecting teams within an organization to optimize products for customers.

Innovator Winners: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

The winning tool selected by product managers at Innovative companies for the 2019 Inaugural Product Awards

Growth Winners: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

The Growth company winners for the 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show, mapped across five stages of the product lifecycle

Enterprise Winners: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

The winning tool selected by product managers at Enterprise companies for the 2019 Inaugural Product Awards

Growth Finalists: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show nominees - the final three tools that have been selected by product managers at Growth companies.

Innovator Finalists: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

The final three tools that have been selected by product managers at Innovative companies for the 2019 Inaugural Product Awards

Enterprise Finalists: 2019 Inaugural Product Awards Show

The final three tools that have been selected by product managers at Enterprise companies for the 2019 Inaugural Product Awards

Data & Analytics

Google Product Lead on Data Products

Data products provide tangible solutions for problems that are informed by real-world use cases from a diverse database of use cases.

Leadership

Building Trust: It’s Not About You

Checking your ego at the door is key to establishing long-term relationships with customers to drive sustainable growth.

Leadership

Building Trust For A Startup

Startups face demanding circumstances for building trust, as entrepreneurs need to build value for every aspect of their business from scratch

My Career

Product Career: New Challenges For Greatness

Part of building a great product career is identifying new challenges to enhance your skills and expand your ability to create new products.

My Career