Benny Reich
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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Benny Reich
Thoughts on Strategic and Empowering Product Management
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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