Building and Leading Product Organizations

In this course, you will focus on building product organizations and developing the leadership mindset needed to guide teams. You will compare strong and weak product companies, consider what to do in a weak product company, and reflect on product culture. You will study how to build product teams, map teams to products, consider team ratios and topology, motivate teams, and hire product managers. The course then turns to leadership principles, including leadership versus management, stakeholder models, influence, wielding influence, and leading without authority. You will also examine the product leader's mindset, including in-tune leadership, the effects of power, power poisoning, taking control, and assertiveness. Through exercises, role plays, dialogues, and knowledge checks, you will connect organizational design with practical product leadership behavior.