Perri: Uninformed boards signal the need for a true CPO
Melissa Perri · How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri · Jul 28, 2022 · at 10:42
Product leadership consultant Melissa Perri discusses the key indicators that signal when a growing company needs to hire a dedicated Chief Product Officer.
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“If your executives and your board are telling you that the person who's communicating those things to them are usually not chief product officer level, right? Like if you are, if your executives don't know what you're doing, that's a big problem. So that's usually the sign to me that we need that.”
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