In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board member Soumeya Benghanem welcome Tatyana Mamut (Pendo.io) and Nitin T Bhat (Smartsheet) to talk about initiating organizational change. The best way to create change is to work together and to be able to effectively do this, we all must learn how to lift each other up. Success is only possible when everyone on the team succeeds in their individual journey.
 
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What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
03:29 Creating organizational change and effectiveness?
04:51 Cross group collaboration model makes a successful team
08:59 Allowing different behavior to be possible and rewarded
14:38 Getting bandwidth to create experiments and new ideas
20:21 Working together for a vision of the world
24:13 To initiate change, everyone in the team should lift each other up
26:10 The environment of psychological safety
31:16 Why do we celebrate failure?
36:16 Good product managers has great judgement
38:32 Building product sense and judgement
43:33 The ability to influence without authority
49:20 How to set up organizational interactions and collaborations?
54:47 The ability to disagree and debate is integral
55:14 Leaders also need positive feedback and validation