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Maggie Crowley

I've actually been going through old episodes of Maggie Crowley's podcast that she did when she was at drift

2 episodes · 3 sourced appearances

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MentionsFailure

our final story is from from Maggie Crowley VP a product at toast

Speaker: Lenny Rachitsky▶ Watch at ~57:30approx.

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Leadership5 steps

Come In Listening, Not Swinging

Earn trust before you inflict change: the first 90 days of a leader inheriting a team.

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Strategy5 steps

Fail Conclusively (Maximize the Treatment Effect)

Design experiments that kill an idea for good, so no future exec can resurrect it.

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Innovation5 steps

Fear-Origin Audit for Product Bets

Products built from competitive fear fail; audit the motivation before you audit the roadmap.

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Innovation5 steps

Problem-First, Wheelhouse-Checked, Unit-Economics-Proven

Three gates a product idea must pass before you build the solution you already fell in love with.

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Communication5 steps

Ruthless Simplification for PM Writing

A set of concrete tools to strip PM documents down to only what's necessary.

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Communication3 steps

Start-With-Why One-Pager

The PM's core artifact: define the thing by nailing the problem and why-now before anything else.

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Mindset5 steps

The A-Side / B-Side Career Ledger

Track the B-side of your career so a bad season doesn't read as a verdict on your life.

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Strategy5 steps

The Broken Equation Test

No amount of product craft can fix a company whose underlying math doesn't close.

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Mindset3 steps

The Data-Driven Red Flag

When someone brags about being 'data-driven,' suspect weak product judgment, not strong analytics.

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Strategy8 steps

The Landscape-First Product Strategy Doc

A bullet-driven Google Doc that builds an unbroken logic chain from company mission down to a single team priority.

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Innovation5 steps

The Minimum Viable Experiment Trap

A lean test that strips out the mechanism doesn't test the idea — it buries it.

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Leadership3 steps

The Three Threads of Great PMs

The three durable behaviors that separate great product managers from good ones, in any company type.

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Leadership5 steps

The Worst Product You Ever Shipped

One interview question that separates PMs with real reps from PMs with a clean résumé.

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