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Christian Idiodi

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  1. “There is this period of humility that I challenge all product managers to have, this period of learning, recognizing what you do not know and what you do not have is the trust of an organization or even in yourself that you know the customer, the business or the data better than anybody else. What you need to do is quickly try to accelerate that. You're going to find the loudest, most influential person in your organization, the person that everybody knows, knows everything. It's in every meeting and stuff. And you're going to ask them to teach you. Going to challenge them, and if they don't have the time to teach you, you're going to volunteer to help them”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I said, I've only seen great product managers come out of two places. One, either a series of massive failure in their career or experiences that have been bad or from learning from great product leaders. The reality of this kind of role, it's kind of like if you have all kinds of ways, maybe you're like on a spot like a quarterback and a team, you need to practice product management to be good at product management. You're not going to get mastery by avoiding some of these elements. And we've kind of clearly defined what you need to represent to a company for them to trust you.”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Say to him, I say, Well, Bobby's a put And it's often interesting to executives when I try to explain that way. That's the competent level. We're talking about here. Imagine if you had bobs on every team. Imagine how much you can accomplish. So one, I don't really think I often say it's not a hate for product management. It's a hate for the understanding of what they have experienced in product management, which are people that are not able to deliver results that help them meet the outcomes they want. So if I were advising product managers, I often say, look, when we see sales or executive-driven product management, when we see these alternatives to product management, it's not a cultural knock or a leadership knock. It's really on the individual and the discipline has to elevate itself to a place that it earns the right to make a decision on what we do.”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Business. Oh, I know more about the customer or the data. And so why should I not tell you what to do? And I think people fail to understand that this role is a team spot. They are part of a team of people working together to discover a solution worth building and in a way that works for a company. And so I think when I think through the companies I've worked with where I kind of see this discipline really eroded is where there is just not a competent level of product management. The way I describe it to a CEO, I'll ask him, you know, tell me who you trust in your company to make a decision on what markets we go to, what things we do. And they always have some senior leader, some VP, some person. And I say, why? Oh, you know, Bob has been here a long time. He knows everybody. Everybody loves him and trusts him. He understands our business. And, you know, I often...”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Think most people don't like product managers often because they haven't experienced good product managers. The core of product management is competency-based, meaning there is someone in an organization that represents the customer the best, that has a deep knowledge of the customers and your users, that has a deep knowledge of your data, your industry, your business, and the product itself. And because of this competence, you kind of trust them to make decisions because if you have a problem that says, say, we want more customers, it makes a lot of sense to go to the person that is an expert in customers to say, help me solve this problem. What you see happening in many organizations is that there is kind of this mispleased influence and mistrust because of the poor competency, meaning I feel I know more about”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I tried to explain to people that the real essence of this job is that you wake up on behalf of someone else to solve a problem for them. And you have to do it well enough that they give you something back in return. That's kind of the real essence of it. And that's the, I always call like a certificate of appreciation, you know, and it can be in the form of revenue, engagement, loyalty, reference, all of those things. And that's the real essence of this job. If it's not fun, you're probably not doing it right. If it's not had, you're probably also not doing it right.”

    2023-12-21 · Lenny's Podcast · The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source