Why Covid is the perfect test for every Product Manager
Covid is wartime. The future is suddenly extremely uncertain, and the entire organization is looking for direction. Wartime requires a wartime leader. Here’s what makes a wartime leader tick.
# Product Management
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What is Product management's most powerful tool?
Product Management makes decisions, lots of them. Some days it’s 10 small decisions about the product interface, some days it’s one major decision about a $3M acquisition. Decision making is part and parcel to the job.
Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers
For a young company, the value of a VP of Product or CPO can be difficult to ascertain. Many argue that senior Product Managers with 3–8 years of experience would satisfy the business’s strategic needs. And that’s indeed true for the first Product Manager hire as I outlined in my 0–1 article. On the other hand, a CPO brings a deeper and more strategic product perspective that can help companies build a vision for the future and optimize their current focus.
From 0 to 1, Hiring Your First Product Manager
For any founder, particularly technical founders who are closer to the code than non-technical founders, hiring your first Product Manager is risky business. It’s usually prompted by the founder or engineering leader declaring
How to get your customers to sell for you
Getting your customers to sell for you is every CEO’s wildest dream and question. I would argue that it’s not just a dream but a necessity. Because if it doesn’t happen your product is dead long term anyway. So it’s really part and parcel to building your business. Some call it virality and others measure it via NPS scores, but they all amount to the same question:
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