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Pride Comes Before the Fall

The worst sin that a Product Manager can commit is to become prideful. Pride breeds arrogance, and arrogance leads to ignoring your customers because you believe you know what they need better than they do. Pride is the number one trait that I believe a business needs to guard against, because it leads [...]

27 December 2006 | Lessons Learned, Product Management | 1 Comment

Happy Holidays from Product Beautiful

I’ve been too busy to write much recently but have a few posts queued up over the next couple of days. First I wanted to wish my few readers a happy holiday and New Year. May your products be successful in 2007!

27 December 2006 | Personal | No Comments

Jargon = Buzzkill

Do you ever see a marketing message that makes you cringe? I just got this invite to a webinar in my email. Title: Effectively Leveraging your Workforce Resources with Pervasive Business Intelligence Best Practices.
Business intelligence is evolving from traditional business intelligence to pervasive business intelligence, which empowers everyone in the organization, at all [...]

1 December 2006 | Marcomm, Personal, Product Marketing | No Comments

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Product Beautiful is a blog for Product Managers and Product Marketers about building successful Product Management and Product Marketing processes. Some topics that other people have found interesting include a three part series on using overseas manufacturing, an analysis of Google APM's and Dell outsourcing its product process, and how Product Management can work effectively with developers and software programmers on free and open source software. You can also find information about Product Management theory and tactics, such as using a RACI. Product Beautiful is written by Paul Young, a Product Management and Marketing professional with experience working in hardware, software, and services from Fortune 50 companies to startups.

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