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Make sure you’re working on the right things before you start working even harder at them.
Want a big change in your results?
Consider that you may need a big change in your approach first.
Explore different angles, challenge assumptions, and surface insights from the safety of your virtual workbench.
These dedicated thinking spaces are crucial for the experimentation, iteration, and clarity needed to push your product forward.
Specialization is for insects https://www.imminentmurphy.com/2024/04/14/specialization-is-for.html
Change can be uncomfortable but it’s also inevitable.
As a product manager you need to embrace the uncertainty.
Hypothesize. Take calculated risks. Stay nimble.
“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”
-Lucille Clifton
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No one gets a gold star if you ship a product feature “on time” and it makes things worse.
Don’t make things worse for your clients.
When you get the chance, grab a dry erase marker and scribble down whatever you’re trying to convey.
Use giant arrows, all CAPS, and underline things.
Encourage others to grab a different color and embroider their own thinking onto yours.
Whenever you can, grab a dry erase marker and start sketching out what’s in your head.
Encourage others in the conversation to embroider their own supporting or contrary ideas in different colors.
Use giant arrows, capital letters, and underline ad you go.
Get the thinking external.
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
-Bruce Lee
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Remember: sarcasm is a actually a form of thinly veiled aggression.
And how rarely is veiled aggression constructive?
Like Herodotus wrote, we never step in the same river twice.
Everything is constantly changing.
Your job as a product manager is to bring focus and alignment amid the chaos.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.“
-Albert Einstein
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