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Leader Spotlight: Thinking about the broader business impact, with Dane Molter
- Dane Molter is VP, Navan Group Core Travel Product & Strategy at Navan, a travel and expense software company.
- Dane talks about how he pushes his teams to adopt a business mindset and to think about the broader portfolio and overall business impact.
- Treating your product like a business portfolio helps us understand what makes our product tick.
- We’ve found that in challenging our PMs this way, their solutions begin to move away from being purely product-oriented and dev-oriented.
- Dane shares strategies to help PMs collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams by understanding stakeholder motivations.
- The four key points that Dane wants PMs to embrace are focusing on outcomes, having strong opinions loosely held, going deep, and being unafraid to make hard decisions.
- It’s really easy to think that you’ve got it covered on the data or customer side of things, but unless you’re actually making time to go deep, you won’t.
- PMs who challenge their thinking, step outside of their team, and think about what their influence areas are, come back to the metrics.
- After a few wins, you become more comfortable and build up a lot of trust within the company as someone who can collaborate with other organizations.
- Dane encourages PMs to think about how they work with adjacent teams and to challenge their product teams to think about the capital-P product i.e. the entire business.
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