The Importance of Alignment in Product Management

01/25/23 • 36 min

On this episode, Jonathan Hensley, the CEO and Chief Product Officer at EMERGE and author of Alignment: Overcoming Internal Sabotage and Digital Product Failure, discusses why alignment is critical to product success, and what teams can do to become more aligned.

We discuss four types of alignment:

Individual
Team
Organization
Market

We discuss four types of alignment:

Individual
Team
Organization
Market

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EPISODE OUTLINE:
Why is agency so important in product management? 0:03

How can product leaders transform or empower when they’re in an environment where it’s more about feature-driven product delivery? 3:57

How product leaders can give their teams the agency they need while holding their teams accountable for value creation. 7:30

Why it’s so important to start with leadership and culture. 10:51

What are some things that may help a product manager who embraces the role but doesn’t quite know how to take hold of it? 15:11

How to tease out the right environment for a new product manager. 20:05

The importance of having a candid conversation with the product leader you’re interviewing with to better understand the environment before joining a new org. 24:01

The fun of product management is that you’re on a continuous learning journey, but it’s also hard. 29:18