I am not the first nor the last person to recommend this superb book. I wish this book existed when I was in my 20s & 30s, so I could have avoided making dozens of money mistakes. As a bonus, it also provides A+ lessons on clear thinking.
Some followers had recommended this book to me before. I finally got around to reading it in 2021.
IMO it is a must-read for founders, PMs, engineers, etc. who are building B2B/SaaS products. (will help you avoid many mistakes & get to the Truth faster)
Lucy was my coach at Stripe & I often sought her advice for difficult conversations with a team member, manager, or peer. Lucy always had the perfect words for the situation
Just trying this format out as an experiment. Happy to do this more regularly if people find it useful. Also let me know if it’s useful for me to share what I am currently reading, bookmarking, etc.
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As a leader, how can you
- Make a major, singular impact
- Truly empower team members
- Grow them with “stretch tasks”
- Create flow for self & others
- Avoid burnout
Answer: Radical Delegation
(note: not for everyone, but game-changing for leaders & teams who are ready for it)
If you look around, especially in fast-paced fast-growth companies, product leaders & their teams are underwater at best & often just burning out.
Too often, leaders think that’s just the way things *have* to be.
Radical Delegation shows that there is a different, better way.
This framework starts with the work that must be done i.e. it assumes you’ve already discarded work that you should not be paying attention to. In fast-paced, fast-growing companies, the work that remains is still *a lot*. Most leaders tend to take on all of that work themselves.
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..
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.
(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.
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.