One Knight in Product19 Des 2021

Product Leadership is Hard - Let‘s Get Better At It (with Ebenezer Ikonne, author ”Becoming a Leader in Product Development”)

An interview with Ebenezer Ikonne. Eb is an experienced product leader and social scientist who wanted to contribute to the product leadership community. To support this goal, he's recently published a book, "Becoming a Leader in Product Development" which aims to help us all take a long, hard look at our leadership practices and make us the best leaders we can be.

We speak about a lot, including:

How most leaders are winging it, with teams that are successful in spite of the leader in question, and how effective teams can hide ineffective managers
The chain of leadership mediocrity; how people are left to work out leadership on their own, with their only role models being people that were left to work it out on their own
Why the world needed another leadership book and how he sees it as the healthy alternative to "microwave thought leadership" & meaningless leadership memes
Whether we need "assigned leaders" these days in this lean & agile world and whether it's really true that "everyone's a leader"
What good leadership looks like, and why it should be more than whether the job got done but how the job got done
The often discussed, poorly understood concept of servant leadership, what it really means, why it's important and whether it can be taken too far
Why it's so important to take care of yourself as a product leader, how leadership is hard and how you can't be a good leader if you don't take care of yourself

And much more!

Buy Becoming A Leader in Product Development "It is becoming increasingly challenging for product development leaders to effectively lead as workplace demands continue to increase. The rate of change in technology, society, and business places immense pressure on leaders to ensure their groups move in the direction of their goals. What might have worked in the past no longer works."

Visit Amazon or Goodreads for more info.

Check out "Joy at Work"

Eb has a YouTube channel! Check it out Joy at Work.

Contact Eb

You can find Eb on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(279)

Evan Campbell: Your Strategy Is Decaying... Here's How to Save It

On this episode, I speak to Evan Campbell, technology executive, strategy consultant and author of Adapt to Win. Evan is a former CTO, product development leader and US Army Green Beret who's spent ye...

4 Nov 1h 7min

Jeff Patton: AI Doesn't Change Product Management Fundamentals

On this episode, I speak to Jeff Patton, Chief Troublemaker at Jeff Patton Associates. Jeff is a product management consultant, coach and trainer, and the author of User Story Mapping, a book that has...

21 Okt 1h 7min

Simonetta Batteiger: Product Managers Need to Understand the Financials... Not Just the Users

On this episode, I speak to Simonetta Batteiger, a product leadership coach, trainer, speaker and co-organiser of ProductTank Cologne. Simonetta began her career in accounting and finance before movin...

10 Okt 1h 6min

Rich Mironov: AI Should Change Product Management... Just Not The Way You Think

On this episode, I speak to the returning Rich Mironov, longtime product management consultant, product leadership coach, and founder of Mironov Consulting. Rich has spent decades working with product...

18 Sep 1h 1min

Eric Ries: From Corrupted to Incorruptible - How to Build Mission-First Companies That Last

On this episode, I speak to Eric Ries, entrepreneur, multiple-time founder and bestselling author of The Lean Startup. Eric has spent years working with founders, leaders and organisations on how comp...

28 Aug 1h 5min

Barry O'Reilly - How to Keep the Humanity in Artificial Organizations

On this episode, I speak to Barry O'Reilly, entrepreneur, executive adviser and author of Lean Enterprise, Unlearn and his latest book, Artificial Organizations. Barry works with senior leaders around...

18 Aug 1h 6min

Pavel Samsonov - AI Can Build the Solution... You Still Have to Design the Problem

On this episode, I speak to Pavel Samsonov, Principal UX Designer at Justworks and author of The Product Picnic newsletter. Pavel has spent his career working across UX, service design and product man...

25 Jul 1h 9min

Be Kaler Pilgrim - Where Does Product Go Wrong in PE-Backed Firms?

On this episode, I speak to Be Kaler Pilgrim, founder of Smithfield Search and original founder of Futureheads Recruitment. Be has spent more than three decades helping organisations build technology ...

2 Jul 57min