Quotes About Product Management

#1. By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Maynard Webb

#2. One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design.

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

#3. You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

Douglas Leone

#4. There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.

Laszlo Bock

#5. Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

#6. Management who fall into this category are often so concerned about digital that they latch on to any idea, no matter how inappropriate. They want quick-fix solutions that will somehow solve digital. That makes them vulnerable to any charlatan with a digital product to sell.

Anonymous

#7. MERIT IS A PRODUCT OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSPARENCY

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#8. Methodology must be flexible. Companies often don't adopt the materials & methods they were trained on because they aren't flexible enough.

Brian Lawley

#9. A great horse is the product of great management."

Cindy McDonald

#10. Success is the delivery of a product that meets expectation

James Leal

#11. Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

Brian Lawley

#12. Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Arthur Brisbane

#13. Only move forward with creating a product that will be "above the bar.

Brian Lawley

#14. To achieve Operational Excellence, management has to coach, guide, teach, and instill the concept of getting rid of the use of management in supporting the flow of product to the customer

Kevin J. Duggan

#15. Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.

Murphy J. Foster Jr.

#16. After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.

Brian Lawley

#17. Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

Clayton Christensen

#18. The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

W. Edwards Deming

#19. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.

W. Edwards Deming

#20. A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Neil Tierney

#21. Your daily actions should be productive

Sunday Adelaja

#22. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Steven Sinofsky

#23. Give your product a personality. 37signals may not sell the best project management software in the world, but it has personality. The 37signals team stands for something: uncompromising simplicity. Want an extra feature? Tough. If you want features, buy something else.

Neil Davidson

#24. Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it.

Brian Lawley

#25. Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product.

Brian Lawley

#26. In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#27. What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Sam Altman

#28. Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail ... 15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#29. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Ginni Rometty

#30. The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Bill Murray

#31. Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.

Brian Lawley

#32. Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#33. Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

Kate O'Neill

#34. The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Peter Drucker

#35. Around 1900 a sales executive discovered a "scientific" principle of sales management. It received a lot of publicity and even found its way into textbooks. The principle was this: There is one best way to sell a product. Find the best way. Then never deviate from it.

David J. Schwartz

#36. Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

Li Shufu

#37. Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

Henry Ford

#38. If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

Jeff Smisek

#39. Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.
- Terry Winograd

Steven Levy