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    Dare to not be Productive
    Benny Reich
    • Jun 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dare to not be Productive

    Innovation sometimes appears between the lines In today’s world, we are bombarded with people telling us that we need to be productive...
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    The Qualities of a Product Manager
    Benny Reich
    • May 7, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Qualities of a Product Manager

    What I look for in a Product Manager. Product managers have to be able to do many tasks across a wide spectrum. Usually, their strength...
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    Agree to Disagree and the Importance of Questions
    Benny Reich
    • Apr 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    Agree to Disagree and the Importance of Questions

    There is nothing worse than a culture that does not allow for questions while following decisions. A World in Crisis These days of...
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    Product Management in Times of Crisis
    Benny Reich
    • Mar 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    Product Management in Times of Crisis

    The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior While we all watch the world as...
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    Enabling Fast Decisions
    Benny Reich
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Enabling Fast Decisions

    The best hack for making good decisions fast is not needing to take them at all Empower to be Empowered In Make Yourself Redundant I...
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    How to Write Fewer Requirements
    Benny Reich
    • Dec 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    How to Write Fewer Requirements

    Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I...
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    Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture
    Benny Reich
    • Nov 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture

    Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting...
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    What is the Product of the VP Product?
    Benny Reich
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 4 min

    What is the Product of the VP Product?

    When your product is your team. Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product...
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    The All-in-One ProductManager
    Benny Reich
    • Aug 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    The All-in-One ProductManager

    Why product managers should be an all-in-one deal and should be involved in everything (sales, marketing, support, etc). Should you split...
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    The Versatile Product Manager
    Benny Reich
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Versatile Product Manager

    Why product managers should be working in different markets and expertise and why companies should be looking for such product managers....
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    Is Product Management like Parenting?
    Benny Reich
    • May 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Is Product Management like Parenting?

    Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I...
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    Reverse Interview
    Benny Reich
    • Mar 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Reverse Interview

    Take control of your career by interviewing your employer. Many have written about what qualities they are looking for in a product...
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    Are Requriements Overrated?
    Benny Reich
    • Jan 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Are Requriements Overrated?

    Why I don’t write long specifications. From Waterfall to Agile In the dark ages we all worked in waterfall. We planned everything months...
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    Mentoring 101.
    Benny Reich
    • Nov 1, 2018
    • 8 min

    Mentoring 101.

    Step by step product management mentoring. In Mentoring Thinking I explained why it’s good to become a mentor. This time as a special...
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    Saying “No” when you want to say “Yes”.
    Benny Reich
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 4 min

    Saying “No” when you want to say “Yes”.

    It always gets down to priorities. Respect all Ideas As a product manager, if you do your job properly and make yourself approachable,...
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    Product Management is about People and Trust.
    Benny Reich
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Product Management is about People and Trust.

    The importance of soft skills. The Technical Product Manager Junior product managers usually focus their learning on the technical...
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    Don’t Manage your Stakeholders from your Ego
    Benny Reich
    • Jul 1, 2018
    • 4 min

    Don’t Manage your Stakeholders from your Ego

    Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product...
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    Make yourself "Redundant"
    Benny Reich
    • Jun 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Make yourself "Redundant"

    Heavily rely on your team to make daily decisions in order to help you focus on the long-term strategy. The Illusion of Importance As...
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    Your Role is not to Write Requirements
    Benny Reich
    • May 1, 2018
    • 5 min

    Your Role is not to Write Requirements

    Why product management role is so misunderstood. The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many...
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    Mentoring Thinking
    Benny Reich
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Mentoring Thinking

    Embrace mentoring as a way of life. The Mentee In the new world where we all live in, you constantly need to grow and develop. You can...
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