One secret to being an ultra-influential leader is to take 5 minutes to simulate your meetings every morning.
For each meeting, visualize: how you want it to go, what role you will play in it, what could derail the meeting, how you want people to feel during & at the end of it.
Success as a product manager is less complicated than most PMs think.
- Product sense
- Execution sense
- Analytical sense
Be great at one of these, be reasonably good at another one, and don’t suck at the third: high odds you will achieve top 10% outcomes fairly consistently.
If you do all of your work based on incentives set by others, you might like the near-term rewards that come, but eventually you might not like the person you have become.
Last summer, I started a new company, @scale_higher. After months of hard work, @victoriahyoung and I saw the early signs of product/market fit.
I want to share 5 lessons we learned on that windy path from zero to something resembling "one". 👇
How to tell that your boss does not have great product sense
1) Needs to see mocks to understand a good product idea
2) Does not get excited without social proof (“what does Joe think?”)
3) Finds comfort in following numerical analyses, customer requests, competitors’ features