The Clearly Product Book Club Podcast - Clearly Product

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Once a month we’ll be reviewing and discussing one book, chosen because it covers some concept that is required to be a strong product person. We’ll be discussing these topics from our perspectives as Bay Area tech professionals to share with the Clearly Product audience.

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Episode 12: Just Enough Res...

08.01.2019

Every product manager builds things for customers, and knowing just who your customers are-what their needs, hopes, desires, frustrations and goals are-is the bedrock of all the work we do. But how do you go about learning that? And how ...

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08.01.2019 Episode 12: Just Enough Research Every product manager builds things for customers, and knowing just who your customers are-what their needs, hopes, desires, frustrations and goals are-is the bedrock of all the work we do. But how do you go about learning that? And how ...
04.19.2019 Episode 11: Inspired Sandi MacPherson and Anna Marie Clifton discuss the skills of product management. This month they use Marty Cagen's book "Inspired: How to Create Tech Products that Customers Love" to discuss the generalist skills of PMing.
03.23.2018 Episode 10: Different We wanted to tackle a marketing book, but one that wasn't just about tactics. We chose HBS prof Youngme Moon's book titled 'Different', as her high-level, strategic view on marketing as a philosophy and art were very appealing to us. ...
12.11.2017 Episode 9: Hacking Growth In their book, Hacking Growth, Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown lay out exactly what you need in order to do that. They establish what types of companies should form growth teams, common models that work, a playbook for that team, ...
10.25.2017 Episode 8: Creative Confidence While the tech and startups worlds clearly sit on the 'bleeding edge' of most industries, organizational practices, and implementations of technology itself, 'creativity' is still a bit of a taboo word. We share some examples of how we’ve navigated related ...
07.19.2017 Episode 7: Crucial Conversations As product managers, we have a bucket full of tools to finesse an idea from concept to customer. But slice and dice it how you will, we pass each of those hard-earned skills though some filter of how we communicate. ...
05.23.2017 Episode 6: High Output Management Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel, wrote this classic text on people management almost four decades ago. Listen in as Sandi MacPherson (Founder of Quibb) and Anna Marie Clifton (product manager at Yammer) discuss the highlights and hard learned lessons from ...
04.20.2017 Episode 5: Winning with Data: Part 2 Part 2 is here! Listen to the second half of the conversation around "Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future" by Tomasz Tunguz and Frank Bien. In Part 1 you heard our perspectives on ...
03.14.2017 Episode 4: Winning with Data: Part 1 Sandi MacPherson and Anna Marie Clifton discuss what every product Manager should know about data informed development. They talk through a recent reading of "Winning with Data" and take a critical eye to the content from that book.
12.07.2016 Episode 3 - On Writing Well Sandi MacPherson and Anna Marie Clifton use this classic book to form a discussion around the importance of writing in the product management context.
11.03.2016 Episode 2 - Negotiate like the best: How to move things forward as a PM Sandi MacPherson and Anna Marie Clifton use this classic book to form a discussion around negotiation in the product management context.
10.12.2016 Episode 1: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum In this episode we review and critique the book and discuss the main points around user-centered design, why software is so much more difficult to build than physical things, and the troubles around communication on teams.
10.08.2016 Episode 0: Reading product books by yourself is a waste of time Once a month we’ll be reviewing and discussing one book, chosen because it covers some concept that is required to be a strong product person. We’ll be discussing these topics from our perspectives as Bay Area tech professionals to share ...