Shifting the mindset to see and talk beyond the product is very critical in Product management. No matter what stage in the product lifecycle, simultaneously and deliberately viewing your product through these perspectives will help avoid common pitfalls and help deliver a superior solution. Former PM at Walmart, Mala Rajendran, talked about putting execution in context and how PM's role is to build the right product, not to build the product right. She also discussed that PM's need to understand their "go-to"" strengths vs. where they need to consciously practice.

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7. Mala
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8. Product Manager’s
MINDSET
Mala Rajendran

9. So you all want
to be CEOs ?
Cool Enthusiastic Optimistic
Pantologist

10. My Journey….
• Product Management
• Business Analyst
• Software Engineer

11. Why care about Mindset?
Product
Manager
Business
owner
Engineers/QA
Operations
FinanceLegal
Cross
functional…
Vendors

12. “ Product Managers don’t create a product,”
“they solve customers problems”
Problem solvers while achieving the business goals.

13. #1
Always start from the
customers

14. For who and why ?

15. Always start from the customer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2O5qKZlI50

16. #2
Don’t create product,
create value….

17. Values- Customers don’t buy products,
they buy solutions….

18. Values…
• “to enable people and businesses throughout
the world to realize their full potential.
• “Inspire the world, create the future”.
• “to be earth's most customer centric company; to
build a place where people can come to find and
discover anything they might want to buy online.”
• “to give people the power to share and make the
world more open and connected.”
• “to organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful.”

19. “All CEOs are Product
Managers”
“All Product Managers are
CEOs”

20. # 3
Story tellers …

21. Once upon a time….
https://hbr.org/2014/10/why-your-brain-loves-good-storytelling

22. You can have the greatest idea in the world,
which is of no value, unless you can sell it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgBuWQ5
8wA8

23. ➢Take always
…

25. Believe in yourself

26. Believe in your idea

29. Product managers see
beyond the product …..
Starbucks CEO say’s he never sold coffee, he was
selling a work place that treats people with dignity
and respect.

30. Make that difference
in the customer’s life
for a better and
happier life

31. Thank you !!

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