Case studies are one of the most useful items in the product management toolkit. To build effective ones, you need to follow a simple but vital set of guidelines. Robert Cialdini’s …
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Product Strategy is Important One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives …
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Precision and accuracy may seem like the same thing, but understanding the distinction between them will let you level up your product management skills. Would you prefer your work to be accurate …
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Because the world moves so fast, product management is seldom a linear process. We can’t afford to let our thought processes be linear, either. Welcome to product calculus. Think back to your …
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There’s a difference between privacy, which is based on trust, and secrecy, which isn’t. To maximize your team’s potential, you need to foster privacy and eschew secrecy. Our mental spaces are …
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Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way to make that change safely and quickly. Survival metrics empower them to do just that. The product …
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When the hard part is over - it’s all downhill. Put on your skis. Let gravity do the work. …
That is a fantasy. There is nothing you can do to change the machine. Its programming is already compiled. The machine has its function. There is no changing that. The idea of one person going up …
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If you are lost, admit it. That’s the first step. Then, sit for a second and orient. Moving any further risks going even farther away from where you intend to go. Or maybe, you’ll realize you like …
“This” is whatever you want it to be. Seriously, there’s art in everything if you respect it as art. I’ve seen commodified painted canvases and brilliant potato peelers. You choose. …
Sometimes there is clarity in just doing the work. So, just start. Sit in the chair and start. …
Shorting a stock means opening a position by borrowing shares that you don't own and then selling them to another investor. Shorting, or selling short, is a bearish stock position -- in other words, …
Center is center. Center moves, though. We think we’re there, but we aren’t. Finding center is a practice. Center is center. …
Trying something new? One step at a time - right? Yep. One step at a time. The end isn’t coming any time soon, and you’ll run out of energy quickly by trying to jump all the time. Take a walk. …
Every week you show up, you’ll get better. Every week. The little things will fill themselves in. Just show up. …
There is probably one thing you would want people in your life to say “ when it comes to X and [reader] - budget be damned." People can’t read minds though. If it matters that much to you, tell …
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Who are you? Who am I? These are some questions I have for me and others since reading Victor Frankl’s “A Man’s Search For Meaning.” I don’t have any answers for myself or you. The book doesn’t …
