Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

  • 11h 9m 31s
  • Chris Jones, Marty Cagan
  • Gildan Media
  • 2020

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation?

Most people think it's because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.

As legendary Silicon Valley coach - and coach to the founders of several of today's leading tech companies - Bill Campbell said, "Leadership is about recognizing that there's a greatness in everyone, and your job is to create an environment where that greatness can emerge". The goal of Empowered is to provide you, as a leader of product management, product design, or engineering, with everything you'll need to create just such an environment.

A natural companion to the best seller Inspired, Empowered tackles head-on the reason why most companies fail to truly leverage the potential of their people to innovate: product leadership.

In this Audiobook

  • Chapter 1 - Behind Every Great Company
  • Chapter 2 - The Role of Technology
  • Chapter 3 - Strong Product Leadership
  • Chapter 4 - Empowered Product Teams
  • Chapter 5 - Leadership in Action
  • Chapter 6 - A Guide to EMPOWERED
  • Chapter 7 - The Coaching Mindset
  • Chapter 8 - The Assessment
  • Chapter 9 - The Coaching Plan
  • Chapter 10 - The One-on-One
  • Chapter 11 - The Written Narrative
  • Chapter 12 - Strategic Context
  • Chapter 13 - Sense of Ownership
  • Chapter 14 - Managing Time
  • Chapter 15 - Thinking
  • Chapter 16 - Team Collaboration
  • Chapter 17 - Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Chapter 18 - Imposter Syndrome
  • Chapter 19 - Customer-Centricity
  • Chapter 20 - Integrity
  • Chapter 21 - Decisions
  • Chapter 22 - Effective Meetings
  • Chapter 23 - Ethics
  • Chapter 24 - Happiness
  • Chapter 25 - Leader Profile: Lisa Kavanaugh
  • Chapter 26 - Competence and Character
  • Chapter 27 - Recruiting
  • Chapter 28 - Interviewing
  • Chapter 29 - Hiring
  • Chapter 30 - Remote Employees
  • Chapter 31 - Onboarding
  • Chapter 32 - New Employee Bootcamp
  • Chapter 33 - Performance Reviews
  • Chapter 34 - Terminating
  • Chapter 35 - Promoting
  • Chapter 36 - Leader Profile: April Underwood
  • Chapter 37 - Creating a Compelling Vision
  • Chapter 38 - Sharing the Product Vision
  • Chapter 39 - Product Principles and Ethics
  • Chapter 40 - Leader Profile: Audrey Crane
  • Chapter 41 - Optimizing for Empowerment
  • Chapter 42 - Team Types
  • Chapter 43 - Empowering Platform Teams
  • Chapter 44 - Empowering Experience Teams
  • Chapter 45 - Topology and Proximity
  • Chapter 46 - Topology Evolution
  • Chapter 47 - Leader Profile: Debby Meredith
  • Chapter 48 - Focus
  • Chapter 49 - Insights
  • Chapter 50 - Actions
  • Chapter 51 - Management
  • Chapter 52 - Leader Profile: Shan-Lyn Ma
  • Chapter 53 - Empowerment
  • Chapter 54 - Assignment
  • Chapter 55 - Ambition
  • Chapter 56 - Commitments
  • Chapter 57 - Collaboration
  • Chapter 58 - Management
  • Chapter 59 - Accountability
  • Chapter 60 - Objectives in Perspective
  • Chapter 61 - Leader Profile: Christina Wodtke
  • Chapter 62 - Company Backgrounder
  • Chapter 63 - Company Objectives
  • Chapter 64 - Product vision and Principles
  • Chapter 65 - Team Topology
  • Chapter 66 - Product Strategy
  • Chapter 67 - Product Team Objectives
  • Chapter 68 - Business Results
  • Chapter 69 - Key Takeaways
  • Chapter 70 - Leader Profile: Judy Gibbons
  • Chapter 71 - The Role of Product Leaders
  • Chapter 72 - Stakeholder Management vs. Collaboration
  • Chapter 73 - Shared Insights and Learning
  • Chapter 74 - Keeping the Lights On
  • Chapter 75 - Evangelism
  • Chapter 76 - Leader Profile: Avid Larizadeh Duggan
  • Chapter 77 - Meaningful Transformation
  • Chapter 78 - Transformation in Action
  • Chapter 79 - TRANSFORMED
  • Chapter 80 - The Most Important Thing
  • Chapter 81 - The Destination
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