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🗓️Recap of May 2021 content:

Black Turtleneck Fallacy
Valuing time
Product clarity exercise
Instinct matters in product
Success + Tranquility
Recognizing happiness
Simple stuff
Transactional managers
% confidence
Writer's block for PMs
A tragedy of many orgs
and more..

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The Black Turtleneck Fallacy
When allocating their time, most people just seek a positive ROI. To achieve much greater outcomes in lesser time, you should instead seek to minimize Opportunity Cost. Probably the most valuable thing I will ever say, especially for senior product folks.
Pay attention to the simple stuff
Pay attention to this stuff to be a clearer thinker than the average smart person:
Try this simple exercise by yourself or in a small group. Then work backwards from the sentence you come up with, and make it true via your product, its branding, and marketing. (this will very likely be higher value than a dozen strategy brainstormings)
One more argument in favor of accepting instinct as an important aspect of building successful products:
Too many people are ostensibly smart & successful, but fail to ever achieve tranquility. A few thoughts on achieving success with tranquility:
Something that's counterintuitive for most product leaders: when your team is working on an extremely challenging project, you should proactively acknowledge to them that you understand the difficulty & the degree of challenge.
If you want to be a more influential leader, make sure your communication is not purely transactional. This doesn't mean spending 15 minutes on small talk. It is more about making subtle but important changes to your mindset & communication style.
A tip for managers to improve decision quality and create more empowered teams:
Make this small change and see how the quality of product discussion & ideas improves:
I still struggle with the "Product Manager's Writer's Block". Here are a couple of tips to tame it:
As a team leader, be aware of these cognitive biases of orgs & teams:
If you run a large org or a company, pay attention to this:
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/HFKZQY5

(takes <2 min)

Thank you very much
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All my 2020 content:
Jan 2021 content
Feb 2021 content
Mar 2021 content
Apr 2021 content
A couple more additions from May 2021 that I missed earlier (btw, this is why I want Twitter to provide the ability to insert a tweet mid-thread, without forking the thread into 2 parts)
Mega thread of product management frameworks, covering prioritization, strategy, decision-making, communication, career growth, etc etc.
It is often hard for us to recognize when we are happy

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30 May
A thread of product management frameworks:

(this might be useful if you are a product manager, product leader, or founder)
Before we jump in:

Frameworks will not fix all your problems.

Used right, they should help you
1) better understand your context
2) create structure for problems
3) communicate ideas & solutions

I often use these frameworks in my product work, sometimes without realizing it.
1/
 3X framework (Kent Beck)

A product can be in one of 3 stages
1. Explore
2. Expand
3. Extract

For product leaders this is the most vital framework to understand because almost every important decision should account for the stage your product is in.

medium.com/@kentbeck_7670…
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16 May
An approach to run working sessions

-Pre-read

-Set clear goals & agenda upfront

-Alternate betwn Quiet Time & Discussion Time twice/thrice in 1 hr

-People work on their own in Quiet Time (talking forbidden)

-Share the work in Discussion Time

-Repeat

If you use this for the right things, you'll accomplish a lot more than constant talking for 1 hr

Another thing:
Much of the business world's processes are highly optimized for extroverts. This approach creates a more balanced structure for introverts & extroverts to contribute.
Below is a concrete example of this working session approach, for pre-mortems. The @coda_hq template linked in this tweet provides the end-to-end structure for you to run such a working session.
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10 May
Why do many modern teams & companies fail to achieve the clarity, progress, and results they so badly seek?

5 cognitive biases of modern organizations, a thread:
1/ Band-aids for Bullet Holes

Organizations tend to prefer sticking band-aids on serious bullet holes.

They do this due to 3 reasons:

- irrational optimism that the band-aid will work

- inability to diagnose the actual problem

- avoidance of the pain from fixing said problem
e.g.

Most Execution problems are really
1) Strategy problems, or
2) Interpersonal problems, or
3) Culture problems

Good leaders execute well because they understand this. They fix the root problem.

Bad leaders & their teams struggle because they are always applying band-aids.
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1 May
🗓️Recap of April 2021 content

Includes:
- A template for pre-mortems
- How product creativity dies
- False Positive Products
- Being more strategic
- B2B strategy primer
- Personal growth inhibitors
- Work stress
- Curated lists
- Internal roles
- Using logic
& much more....

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A template that you can copy to run an effective (and fun) pre-mortem with your team for your upcoming launch (created via a collab with @coda_hq)
The hardest part of product creativity is not the ideation. It is the negotiation necessary to get the folks who are fixated on logic & math to appreciate the value of product creativity.
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23 Apr
Product leader anti-patterns (and resulting problems)👇🏾
First, a quick recap:

3 types of product leaders
The Operator
The Craftsperson
The Visionary

Think of them as hats rather than types, if you wish.

Product leaders can (and do) wear multiple hats.

But most usually have a primary or preferred hat.

Ref:
Note: There is no "one right" type or hat. Context matters most here.

It's useful to know these anti-patterns so we can spot them in ourselves, in the leaders we might hire or manage, in the leaders we might work for.

Can't fix what we don't see.

With that, the anti-patterns👇🏾
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19 Apr
Short thread on the strategy questions you need to answer for B2B products:

(a strategy primer in 10 tweets)
Your B2B product strategy must rigorously answer these 3 questions:

1) What customer segments are we targeting?

2) What differentiation will we create for them?

3) How will we reach these customers?
It really is that simple.

No fancy frameworks or data deluge necessary.

But the answers to these questions do require deep insight into the market, org dynamics, buyer psychology, customer goals, tech evolution, and lots of creativity.

Rigorous strategy is not easy.
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