product manage your_career_-_ipma_4_dec2011_-_sharad_sharma1.34004513
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Product Manage Your Career!Sharad Sharma
CEO – BrandSigma (stealth mode)Chair – NASSCOM Product Forum
Indian Angel Network, India Innovation Fund
About You?
a) Practicing versus wannabe Product Managers?
b) B2C, B2b, B2B/B2G business model?c) Startups vs MNCs?d) How many of you have worked in the US? In
the Valley? How many would like to go there?
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Five Suggestions
1. Stay in India; it makes sense like never before
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Five Suggestions
1. Stay in India; it makes sense like never before
2. Shape up; next few years will be tough
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Five Suggestions
1. Stay in India; it makes sense like never before
2. Shape up; next few years will be tough3. To be good at what you do, pick the right
flavor - Product or Program Manager - for the real you
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Five Suggestions
1. Stay in India; it makes sense like never before
2. Shape up; next few years will be tough3. To be good at what you do, pick the right
flavor - Product or Program Manager - for the real you
4. Select the product, not the company; MNC vs. startup is a false choice
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Five Suggestions
1. Stay in India; it makes sense like never before2. Shape up; next few years will be tough3. To be good at what you do, pick the right
flavor - Product or Program Manager - for the real you
4. Select the product, not the company; MNC vs. startup is a false choice
5. Skills matter, but so does your personal code of conduct
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
New Age Code of Conduct
Guilds >> Organizational Man >> Creation Nets. Every Age has its own rules for Workers.
• Set people for successEven when their definition of success is different from yours
• Give more than you takeCommons are important; collaboration is cooperation plus amplification
• Say what you mean, do what you saySpeed of trust depends on this
• Deliver fast error recoveryThis is more important than failure avoidance
• Make things up, make them happenIt about action and outcomes after all!
Sharad Sharma @sharads, IPMA 4th Dec 2011
Questions?