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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love - and that will work for your business.

With sections on assembling the right people and skillsets, discovering the right product, embracing an effective yet lightweight process, and creating a strong product culture, listeners can take the information they learn and immediately leverage it within their own organizations - dramatically improving their own product efforts. Whether you're an early stage start-up working to get to product/market fit or a growth-stage company working to scale your product organization or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, Inspired will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success.

Filled with the author's own personal stories - and profiles of some of today's most successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix - Inspired will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love.

The first edition of Inspired, published 10 years ago, established itself as the primary reference for technology product managers and can be found on the shelves of nearly every successful technology product company worldwide. This thoroughly updated second edition shares the same objective of being the most valuable resource for technology product managers, yet it is completely new - sharing the latest practices and techniques of today's most successful tech product companies and the men and women behind every great product.

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Good for beginners

It’s a good summary but not that deep in the details. I was expecting a bit more of it. Nothing really new to me.

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Good Information

Very informative and an easy to listen to. looking forward to other books by this author.

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Product Manager Bible

Great insights into the best practices and ways of working as a Product Manager and striving for greatness. Very good note on strong product culture-centric organization.

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  • Srikanth Ramanujam
  • 2018-11-15

Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund

I learned a lot of ideas on Product Management from Marty in this book and would gladly recommend, maybe the Kindle version. They have fixed the original audiobook with revisions and there are three sets of voices and that is disconcerting to listen. They have cheapened out instead of re-recording the v2 of the book as a whole from scratch again.

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  • Deb Mone
  • 2018-05-25

Bad recording devalues this product

Amazon should junk this recording and re-record with a professional reader.

I find it amazing that the author has all these great ideas on product management, but he doesn't apply any of them to the recording of this audiobook.

The recording jarringly shifts in both audio quality and pitch on approximately every 10th sentence. It's obvious that some editor went back and re-recorded certain passages, and then stitched the final audio product together in an amateurish way.

Also, the author overdoes the emphasis. He must inflects his voice to raise the implied importance of a passage way too often. This happens so often that the listener just starts zoning out. It's like listening to a business leader that prioritizes everything as #1.

I'm sure there's lots of great product management ideas in here somewhere, but they get lost in the poor reading.

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  • Izzy
  • 2018-03-22

audio is strange. noticeable audio edits.

Performance is strange. One can hear the voice change mid sentence like it was recorded at a different time in a different environment..

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  • Ilya
  • 2019-01-01

Absolute Must Read

Very, very few books are packed with value in every chapter AND come together into a digestible and cohesive message, but Thai is that rare find. It's clear that the author knows his way around great products, because this book is a prime example of one. Read this book.

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  • Kaspar
  • 2019-11-12

Best audiobook I've heard in a while

No fluff, straight talk, examples - all you could ever need as a product manager.
The audio is not as bad as mentioned in other reviews, its not GREAT, but not an issue at all.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2020-09-18

Good, but not useful to everyone in product

My expectation was of a book that would be useful for anyone entering the product world, but I thought that the understanding was heavily dependent on prior knowledge of product development. The structures and roles suggested are also very depending on the structure of the company and are not very relatable. Good book, but I expected something more raw and deep, so that it would be a good base to start someone into product development, like "Scaping the Build trap" for example.

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  • CraigL
  • 2019-03-04

All stuff, no fluff

This book is going to become a core resource in my product management library. It is packed with great information.

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  • Banjo Obayomi
  • 2020-08-01

Good for product teams at big companies

Many of the lessons really can only be applied at big organizations as the focus is build products while working with customers hand in hand. The book is good for layout a general product framework and many concepts are repeated to make a point. The authors emphasis on co located teams is also moot in a post COVID era so some content is rendered useless

The random audio switches aren’t as bad as some reviewers are comparing about.

If you work at a big company and want to bootstrap product ideas then this is a good listen , otherwise would stick to blog posts about product.

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  • P Collins
  • 2019-10-16

Invaluable book

This book is literally the Bible for building product teams and a product culture.

Marty’s voice performance can be mildly annoying the way he inflects up at the end of every sentence... but it is easily ignored given his passion for the topic.

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  • Harry
  • 2019-01-20

misleading title

I picked up this book based on the title "inspired ... ", which I thought was about creative process of product design. the book however talks about organizational issues and other useless, or obvious, topics. I could not listen to the author past halfway. waste of time and money.

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