Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-03-10
Lenny Rachitsky & Marty Cagan: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast (Mar 2024)
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Marty Cagan is a luminary in the world of product.
Marty Cagan recommended Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, Build by Tony Fadell, and What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban, and discussed Inspired by Marty Cagan and EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Continuous Discovery Habits
Recommended“most of the books I see I'm asked to review a lot of the books I love it when it's an exception and it's like wow that's a good book Teresa torres's book continuous Discovery habits good book”
Where to get it
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Inspired
Discussed“hopefully you know is for product teams and product managers it's really a book about product Discovery and then uh Empower”
Where to get it
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EMPOWERED
Discussed“and then uh Empower it's really about product leadership Vision strategy team topology coaching it's all about that”
Where to get it
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Build
Recommended“I love the the new book from Tony Fidel called build It's a Wonderful book and he's describing the product model but for Hardware to devices and his perspective was fabulous”
Where to get it
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What's Our Problem?
Recommended“another one I really liked is um do you know Tim Urban the guy behind wait but why absolutely I just love the way this guy thinks and he wrote a book called what's our problem”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Inspired
“he's also written two of the most popular books in the field of product management inspired and empowered”
Passing EMPOWERED
“he's also written two of the most popular books in the field of product management inspired and empowered”
Plugged Transformed
“and this week he's releasing his newest book transformed in our conversation we cover some spicy and important topics”
Passing Transformed
“you're you've also got a book coming out we're going to talk about that you've also been getting a lot more spicy in your writing as of late”
Plugged Transformed
“now I would argue that some of my favorite examples in fact in the new book we highlighted a classic sales-driven financial services company moving to the product model”
Plugged Transformed
“so the goal of transform was unlike the other books was to share how to actually change there are techniques in transformed as well but there are transformation techniques”
Plugged Transformed
“unlike the other books the other books are written for people like us right and your audience and my audience you know they're product people these are written for non-product people too”
Passing Transformed
“the official title of the book is it's transformed moving to the product operating model what do you mean when you there it is”
Plugged Transformed
“where can folks find your book when is it available where can they reach out if they want to follow up on stuff and how can listeners be useful to you well yeah the the book should be available worldwide”