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5 Leadership Behaviors That Will Make You a Great Leader
The Startup
The Real Reason Women Aren’t Getting Ahead in Tech: “She’s Not Strategic”
The Startup
What Buddhism Taught Me About Product Management
The Startup
What are outcome-based roadmaps?
Invision
Feature Prioritization: 7 Ways to Prioritize Features and Product Improvements
Planio
The 5 Most Watched Business of Software Talks of the Decade
Business of Software
1-3s Approach
John Cutlefish
Why We Focus on Trivial Things: The Bikeshed Effect
Farnam Street
How to Think Like a Futurist
Ari Wallach
50 Short Product Lessons
John Cutlefish
Synthesizing Feedback: The 6 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Product — Part 3
Postlight
Strategy Needs Good Words
Martin Weigel
Why Figma Wins
Kevin Kwok
The Fundamental Tension in Product
Dan Schmidt
The Many Meanings of Design-Led
IBM Design
The business value of design
McKinsey
The 5-minute design brief
UX Collective
From Gut to Plan: The Thoughtful Execution Framework
Spotify Design
How to solve a design problem?
UX Collective
Design systems need experience foundations
Shopify
Distributed Ownership
Linzi Berry
Alison Rand's Writings
Alison Rand
Crafting an Effective Working Group
Jessica Harlee
What is up with Organizational Maturity?
Ncommon
Using OKRs to Increase Organizational Learning
Christina Wodtke
What Is Organizational Design?
Nobl
The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
Craft
Designing for emergence: Navigating organizational disruption and complexity
UX Collective
A practical guide to running effective design critiques
Suelyn Yu
Mastering Design Critiques
UX Collective
From boss to coach: how to build a winning design team
Abstract
How Great Managers Give and Receive Feedback
Fellow
Three Questions for Effective Feedback
Harvard Business Review
5 steps for Disagreeing Effectively
Julie Zhou
Disrupting Bias in Feedback
Jill Wetzler
The Feedback Fallacy
Harvard Business Review
Crystal ball 1-on-1s
Matthew Strom
10 Mistakes You Should Avoid During Your One-On-One Meetings
Fellow
What Should You Ask a New Employee in Their First One on One Meeting?
Wide Angle
Questions for our first 1:1
Lara Hogan
One on One Meeting Questions Great Managers Ask Their Teams
Lighthouse
24 great one-on-one meeting questions
CultureAmp
Setting up a Gmail recruiter response template
Jules Forrest
Directory of Product Design Portfolios
Brian Lovin
Rethinking Discipline
Scott Young
How to be indistractable
Nir Eyal
Work on what matters.
Will Larson
A collection of resources for a healthy and balanced approach to work
Work Responsibly
Managing Yourself: How to Calibrate Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses
Julie Zhou
What Great Managers Do Daily
Harvard Business Review
Fostering psychological safety with a personal user manual
Ness Labs
10 questions I wish I’d asked more to turbocharge my career
Julie Zhou
An Essential Tool for Capturing Your Career Accomplishments
A List Apart
How career ladders provide clarity, focus, and purpose
Invision
A Design Team’s Guide to Leveling
Designer Fund
Your guide to resourcing discussions as a design manager
Jehad Affoneh
A Professional Development Framework for Design
Clearleft
Clearleft's Progression Framework
Clearleft
Evaluating Employees in Product Design & Development Roles
Mike Davidson
Roles and Responsibilities Activity
Atlassian
Designing a Better Career Path for Designers
Siva Sabaretnam
Directory of Leveling Frameworks
Progression.fyi
Career Conversations With Employees: Questions and Tips for Managers
Fellow
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Carol Dweck
A Growth Plan for Designers
Ludwig Wedzich
6 examples of an Individual Development Plan
Simplicable
4 Key Steps to Promote Diversity Conscious Leadership
Fellow
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One
Harvard Busines Review
Becoming a More Patient Leader
Harvard Busines Review
The leadership tree exercise
David Hoang
Why good leaders make you feel safe
Simon Sinek
6 Leadership Styles And When You Should Use Them
Fast Company
How to Encourage Participation in Meetings
Medium
Good challenges vs. bad challenges (Etsy last lecture)
Jessica Harlee
Five Lessons in Managing Ambiguity
Google Design
The Benefits of Framing Culture as a Management System
MIT
How to Lead Effective Team Meetings: 8 Best Practices
Fellow
Design the team you need to succeed
Christina Wodtke
Work at different management levels
Wherewithall
Micromanager, Absentee Manager or Thought Partner — Which One Are You?
Kim Scott
How to build—and manage—a self-improving team
Quartz
Lessons from My First Year as a Product Design Manager
Johnathan Meharry
Help Your Team Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout
Harvard Business Review
Maanger Readmes: A minefield in the making
Duretti Hirpa
7 Steps to Manage Up Effectively
Fellow
20 questions to ask instead of “How are you doing right now?”
Quartz
Monthly Leveling for the Win
Leslie Yang
Introverted Managers Can Lead Without Gift of Gab
Scott Bateman
Here’s What I Learned During My First Year a People Manager
Allison Krausman

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