Product Leadership Lessons: Hard Truths That Took Me 15+ Years To Learn - Private Seminar

In this 1 hour 15 minute video, you will learn 18 non-obvious truths that will help you operate much better as a product leader.

This private presentation and Q&A is for current & aspiring product leaders, and product executives.

Here’s a detailed preview of the content covered in this private video:

• Intro: what this seminar is about

• Shreyas's background

• How the session works

• The 3 skills that hold product leaders back

• Editing is your most important new job

• You're probably not as good at product strategy as you think

• Product strategy is about how you'll differentiate

• Good strategy starts with good customer segmentation

• All your problems are messaging problems

• Yes, Prime Minister clip: the power of messaging

• Fast promotions leave gaps in core PM skills

• Senior leaders don't get to make excuses

• The three levels of product work: impact, execution, optics

• The 4 factors you're judged on as a product leader

• Why optics matters more as companies grow

• Your career is your most important product

• Cut half the meetings on your calendar

• Q&A: Editing without micromanaging

• Q&A: Blind spots of fast-promoted PM leaders

• Every PM leadership job is challenging

• Your problems aren't unique, but your solutions must be

• Good misses and lucky flukes

• Three types of product leaders: operator, craftsperson, visionary

• Tailoring proposals to your exec's archetype

• The three sweetest words in English

• Recommended books for product leaders

• Extended Q&A begins

• Q&A: What "reasons are excuses" really means

• Q&A: Leading product in a sales-led company

• Q&A: Getting comfortable with optics

• Q&A: Product strategy when company strategy is unclear

• Q&A: Where to focus across explore, expand, and extract

• Wrap-up

Note:

• The material in this resource is entirely unrelated to the Product Sense & Strategy material Shreyas teaches in class

• The actual content of the Product Sense course is not available anywhere, in any of Shreyas' public content