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7 Feb, 24 tweets, 7 min read
🗓️Recap of Jan 2021 content

Includes:
- Legacy Momentum
- Strategic Thinking
- Concise Writing
- Growing as a Manager
- Clear Product Thinking
- Debugging Product Teams
- Product Process
- Perspectives on OKRs
- Reminders for Product Work
- Consumer Products
& much more...

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On Legacy Momentum, which is important to understand, can be hard to recognize, and is useful if accepted
A few reminders on product work
This is useful to remember when designing & marketing Consumer products
If we want to improve at strategic thinking, we need to deeply understand what strategy really is
If your product is the David in a David vs. Goliath battle, consider these strategies to increase your odds of success
Questions for more rigorous discussions during a product review (useful for product leaders and product teams)
Beyond a certain scale, one standard process for building all products within a company makes little sense
Lots of interesting perspectives from folks in the replies to this tweet regarding OKRs
Something that most people don’t know, but should know

(h/t @mkobach for the thought provoking question)

Some reminders on growing as a manager
My favorite quotes from @deewhock (the founder of Visa)

e.g.
“Every mountain is two mountains: the one that urges us to climb and the one that punishes us when we do”
“One should not read like a dog obeying its master, but like an eagle hunting its prey”
A lesson I learned fairly late in life, regd. self-centered people
On the concise writing mindset, along with a number of useful resources for writing and communicating
If things are not going as well as you would like them to on your product team or at your product-focused startup, this is a simple & powerful approach for debugging the main problem
As a product leader, you need to deliberately consider the brand angle when making high stakes product decisions & supporting your team on detailed product execution
On being aware of Recency Bias as a leader
A few things that modern product leaders ought to remember
A tactic for clearer product thinking
The 2 purposes of a conversation
A short list of easy to say, hard to do, valuable things
Listen to Draymond Green
If you've reviewed most of this content, would you kindly take a survey? (just 1 required question & 2 optional)

It would help me immensely to get your feedback.

Head over to SurveyMonkey for a super-quick survey:
surveymonkey.com/r/DPK887Q
(takes <2 min)

Thank you very much!
Sorry for posting this recap when we are almost 1 week into February. On the plus side, hopefully this is useful if you're looking for some reading material this weekend.

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6 Feb
Listening well is a rare superpower.

I had been a bad listener most of my life.

Then I fixed that a few years ago.

The result?

Night & day difference in my critical thinking & leadership ability.

A thread on learning the art of listening v2.0

(with lessons from movies)

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First, why is listening hard?

It’s because we tend to have:

1) an inability to be present

2) the fear of being wrong

3) a desire for validation

4) a feeling of superiority

5) a lack of curiosity

6) the urge to impress
A couple of gems from Dee Hock:

"Communication would be vastly improved if everyone who wrote and spoke were content to be understood without needing to be admired."

"To speak is craft; to listen is art."
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30 Jan
4 stages of maturity as a manager

(trigger warning: might feel too real)

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Stage 1 manager:

A new manager who is unwittingly still trying to prove (to self & others) why he deserves the manager job.
Common Stage 1 signs:

-General insecurity

-Rarely says “I don’t know”

-Often tries to do team members' jobs

-Nitpicks a lot when providing feedback

-Comes across as competing against direct reports

-Often complains about direct reports with trusted peers & his own manager
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25 Jan
Would you kindly answer this anonymous, 3 question survey on Speaking, Listening, Writing skills?

It will be helpful for a bigger piece I am writing on Communication.

Question 1:

Among these 3, I am most proficient at
Question 2:

I am least proficient at
Question 3:

I want to most improve my
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24 Jan
More of my favorite nuggets of wisdom from the writing of @deewhock (the founder of Visa)

Consider reading slowly & re-reading later

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1/
Fear, when it adds nothing to safety, is pain without utility.

- Dee Hock
2/
It is incomparably more difficult to gain acceptance of a new idea than it is to discover it.

- Dee Hock
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23 Jan
A thread of 7 things you already know about discovering, testing, and shipping products

(but tend to forget at times)

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1/
 Spending some time upstream to properly understand the problem & the domain will save you from spending a lot of time downstream wondering why people aren’t buying your product.

You can’t learn everything upfront, but you can learn many things upfront.
2/
 If you are talking to customers with a certain product idea already in your mind, you will usually manage to find great reasons why it makes sense to build that idea.

Starting with a blank slate keeps a product manager’s biggest enemy—confirmation bias—at bay.
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21 Jan
Before going head-to-head against a powerful incumbent, consider these other strategies:

1)
 Target a different segment

2)
 Commoditize incumbent
(lower/zero cost)

3)
 Out-distribute
(via bundling or exclusive partnerships)

4)
 Platformize
(enable others to compete)

contd.👇🏾
5)
 Attack from the top
(start higher in the stack)

6)
 Attack from the side
(tackle adjacent aspect of the Customer Value Chain)

7)
 Differentiate on brand
(hard to do)

8)
 Eliminate adoption friction

These strategies can be combined.

Avoid playing the Feature Game, if you can.
Some examples, from @aakashthumaty
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