TEI 098: When product managers’ good ideas are not enough

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next
episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister,
PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation
and managing products become more successful, grow their careers,
and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: I have a great
guest for us to learn from – the author of a new book, The
Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough. Doesn’t that sum
up the challenge of being a product manager – when your good idea
is not enough. My guest, Professor Samuel B. Bacharach, argues that
in order to implement any innovation — no matter how great your
idea — that you must be an “agenda mover.”  He’s analyzed how
leaders such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Martin
Luther King, Jr. have been able to turn their ideas into
action.  He has also spent years teaching the skills that
enable people to move agendas. Today he helps leaders of Fortune
500 companies apply the steps to move their ideas forward. He is
also an organizational behavior professor at Cornell University and
the co-founder of the Bacharach Leadership Group.