Rich Mironov, author of The Art of Product Management, and a veteran product leader with over three decades of experience tells it like it is in this engaging episode of Product Leader's Journey. We discuss the emotional aspects of product leadership, why prioritization is a political problem, why a product role in the B2B enterprise domain is more challenging, what product leaders owe their teams, and a lot more.

In this episode Rich covers:

• What Go-to-Market teams actually don't care about
• Prioritization is a political problem
• Why the product role in enterprise B2B is challenging
• Merchandising Product work
• Diagnosing what's not working in Product land
• Organizational dysfunctions that prevent Product success
• Assessing product competency
• What product leaders owe their teams
• Moving up to VP Product
• Identifying & preventing product waste

Connect with Rich Mironov:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richmironov/
https://www.mironov.com (Rich's blog)

Connect with Rahul Abhyankar:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulabhyankar

Referenced in this Episode:

The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator (book)
Prioritization is a Political Problem (blog post)
Merchandising Product Management (blog post)
What we need in a VP of Product Management (blog post)
Shoulder to Shoulder (blog post)
Four Laws of Software Economics (blog post)
How to Prevent Product Waste (interview)