EMPOWERED, Marty Cagan
EMPOWERED, Marty Cagan
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EMPOWERED
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Author: Marty Cagan, Chris Jones

Narrator: Marty Cagan

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/03/2020


Synopsis

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 bestseller INSPIRED, EMPOWERED tackles head-on the reason why most companies fail to truly leverage the potential of their people to innovate: product leadership.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniil

"Empowered" is the best science fiction book of 2020. Reading "Empowered" I caught myself having a strange feeling - like I was reading a good science fiction book. Everything described made perfect sense, it is smart and believable. And yet the world Marty describes feels not totally real to me. Li......more

Goodreads review by Anna

Having read 2/3s of it, I consider this book really flat vs the expectation I built up from others’ fascination and it seems more like a hype to me. I started reading in in anticipation of learning more about successful product management. What I got, however, was a superficial collection of topics......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

While the 'Inspired' book focused on product development techniques, Empowered focused on people and organisation. I had a couple of epiphany moments while reading it, as I felt that words were finally put on some of the challenges I observe. Complete book on how to shape a great organisation, inclu......more

Direct continuation of "Inspired" - it picks it up where "I" has left it, so a reader doesn't have to go through the basic terminology, but "stacks up" more upon the foundations. The form is equally good - clear, concise, to-the-point. It's not really based on facts and anecdotes - more like a synthe......more

A good read on products, product teams, and product leaders and managers. A lot of the content is repeated from the book Inspired, but there is plenty of new stuff here too. Also, like Inspired, the organization of the content isn't great: this time, it's broken down across 80 chapters (!), which ar......more