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Midjourney

By Midjourney, Inc.

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Innovation6 steps

Alpha Co-Creation Loop

Pick the users who are already pushing the boundary, build with them in a shared channel, ship only when they're thrilled.

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Autonomy at the VP Level

Place decision autonomy at the VP layer — not the leaves, not the top — to maximize thinking without producing chaos.

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Be Known For Something

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Break Into AI PM With a Prototype Portfolio

Build a foundation, then ship prototypes that pre-answer the hiring manager's core questions.

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Build for Day 365 Retention

The most valuable companies have the highest one-year retention — engineer for it using early social signals

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Build for the Future Model

Design product ideas for the model capability that is coming, not the one you have today

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Build It Wrong Before You Know It's Right

Use AI to test a hundred ideas a day as a failure machine, not to polish one idea for three months

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Bundling Strategy by Growth Motion

When to bundle products and when a single-product land wins

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Org Choice

Pick your org model from your product strategy: speed (Amazon) or unified experience (Apple), and accept its cost.

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Clear Is Kind: The Three-Sentence Correction

State the failure, state your belief in them, hand them the responsibility — starting tomorrow

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Core-Behavior Synthetic Training

Ship an AI feature by naming its 3-4 core behaviors and teaching them with model-generated data

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Influence5 steps

Disagree With the Founder Via the Spirit

Never say no to the idea — say yes to the spirit and come back with a better path

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Don't Default to the Chatbot: Choosing the Right AI Interface

Reject the intuitive AI copy; ask what problem your business actually needs solved.

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Strategy5 steps

Double Down on Why People Love You

Name the core reason users love you, keep investing in it, and build every new product off it

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Productivity4 steps

Draft-First LLM Augmentation

Never ask the model to do your job — write your version first, then have it improve it.

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Productivity4 steps

Eval-First AI Product Development

Define what 'correct' looks like as evals first; the spec becomes the scorecard, not the build instructions

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Communication4 steps

Explain-It-to-Prove-You-Understand-It

Force yourself and others to explain decisions; if you can't articulate it, you probably don't understand it.

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Communication4 steps

Exponential Feedback via the Competency Lens

Give feedback on root-cause behaviors, not surface symptoms, so it compounds — use a competency rubric as the diagnostic lens.

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Peak Performance3 steps

Exposure Hours

Build taste as a trainable skill by quantifying time spent watching real people use products

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Innovation4 steps

Fake the AI Before You Build It

Never train a model for an MVP — prototype the AI's output and test demand first.

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Innovation4 steps

Fault-Tolerant User Interfaces

Design your UI to match the real hit-rate of your machine learning, not a fantasy of 100% accuracy.

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Innovation3 steps

Finding High-Leverage AI Ideas

Give AI work a metric, run hackathons, and study what makes AI products feel magical.

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Strategy4 steps

Find the Cocktail Party

To reinvent social, find where the cocktail party wants to happen and make it rowdy and socially productive

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Founder-Led Marketing as a Goodwill Bank

Log what you learn, package it per platform, bank goodwill to spend later

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Productivity6 steps

Friction Logging

Adopt a specific user's identity, walk your own product end-to-end, and log every point of friction.

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Productivity5 steps

Frontier of Understanding (Goal by Risk Type)

Before committing to an outcome goal, set the goal at the true edge of what your team knows — understanding, dependency, execution, or strategic risk.

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Leadership6 steps

Group UX Review and Walking the Store

Taste the soup together — experience the product as a group, log issues live, then debate each one.

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Leadership6 steps

Hire for Autonomy: References, Real Work, and Default Trust

You'll be in none of the decisions that matter — so hire people you can hand autonomy to, and verify via references.

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Productivity6 steps

Internal Tools as a Product (The Crying Octopus)

Run your dev-productivity team like a product team: monthly surveys, hard metrics, and one-click paper cuts.

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Mindset4 steps

Kill Hope Before Hope Kills You

Separate belief from hope, and refuse to launch until you're collecting winnings instead of making bets

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Latency Over Velocity: Conviction-Based Startup Decisions

A startup's edge isn't speed — it's a tight turning radius; swap experiment-driven decisions for informed conviction.

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Leadership5 steps

Lean Team by Design: Slow Hiring, Player-Coaches, Generalists

Hire painfully slowly, replicate your first-10 DNA, and bet big on the exceptional

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Learn the Tokens, Not the Depth

In the AI era, master the symbolic vocabulary of a domain rather than its exhaustive depth

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Strategy5 steps

Lowercase-c vs Capital-C: AI-Proofing Your Skill Stack

Sort every task into what AI does 80% well and what only a human can do — then invest accordingly

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Leadership4 steps

Make Everyone a CEO

Give people a real hill to take with operating control so they do the right thing when you're not in the room

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Influence5 steps

Manufacture the Room (Bending the Universe)

Decide which room you must be in, then engineer a legitimate reason to be standing in it

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Strategy3 steps

Nine Nos For Every Yes

Guard product quality with creative restraint — every feature you say yes to is a puppy you must care for forever

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Productivity4 steps

One Click Faster (Clock Speed Management)

Three tactics to raise an organization's pace without lowering its bar

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Strategy5 steps

Phase-Bounded Big Bets

Dream big, but chunk the bet into named learning phases with quarterly go/no-go gates

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Innovation2 steps

Press-Release-First Product Ideation

Write the launch press release before you build to keep products marketable

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Productivity4 steps

Product-First AI Prompting

Steer AI builders by describing the end-user experience ambitiously, then iterate like you're coaching a collaborator

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Prompting-as-Prototyping

Validate a product idea by prompting a model in a local browser before building anything

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Proven Better New

Master the proven, add a verifiable better, gamble one risky new — to stack the odds a product wins

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Finance5 steps

Reactive Pricing After Demand Signal

Let users pull pricing out of you, then validate willingness-to-pay and margins

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Sales4 steps

Reading the Signals for Product-Led vs Sales-Led Growth

A decision tree for whether and when to hire your first salespeople

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Marketing4 steps

Recall vs. Discovery Interface Split

Match interface density to user intent: dense grids for recall, low-density sound-rich feeds for discovery.

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Scalable Leadership vs. Selective Micromanagement

When you lack confidence in your team's direction, don't go hands-off — micromanage tactically and temporarily to get them back on track.

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Separating Change-Aversion from Real Problems in a Redesign

After a redesign, split 'upset because it changed' from 'upset because it's worse' before you react.

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Ship Fast Without Breaking Money

Reject the reliability/velocity trade-off: automated gauntlet, ramped exposure, and remediations ahead of roadmap.

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Spirit-First OKRs

Write down qualitatively what crushing it looks like before you pick any number

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Start Embarrassingly Small

The more ambitious you are, the humbler your starting point should be — begin at 1,000 feet, not 100,000

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Stay Close to the Metal

The best product CEOs micromanage the pixel-level details and are the first and last mile of the product

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Teaching Hospital and Tech Assistant

Transfer your product instincts by working in the open and cloning a shadow who becomes a mini-you

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The 10-Point Company Quality Checklist

Ten hard metrics to judge whether a company is worth betting your career on

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The 12 Product Management Competencies

Map every PM skill into four areas — execution, customer insight, product strategy, influence — and 12 competencies that hold from APM to CPO.

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The Adjacent-Precedent De-Risk Pitch

Win leadership buy-in for a big AI bet by anchoring it to a past bet that already worked.

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The AI PM Upskilling Path

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The Durable Wrapper Test

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The Engineer-cation

Leaders clear 3-4 days, join a team as an IC, ship one small feature to production, and log the friction.

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The Escape Hatch Principle

Abstractions should let power users drop to raw control when the model doesn't fit their problem

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The First 30 Seconds Onboarding Bet

Earn the next 30 seconds by making one thing feel magical fast

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The Four Challenges of AI Product Management

Uncertainty, pivots, data scarcity and a broken promo path — the four taxes of the AI PM role.

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The IKEA Effect for AI Products: Leave Knobs and Levers

Don't automate everything away — give users enough control to feel ownership.

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The In-Product Feedback Loop

Stream user reactions straight into your team's consciousness by building feedback into the product itself

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The Inverted W Planning Process

Teams propose, leaders synthesise, teams adjust, leaders resynthesise, orgs distribute with context.

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The Micro-Influencer Wide-Net Playbook

Skip the big creators; onboard thousands of trusted micro-influencers like teammates

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The Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)

Ship five things people love, not fifteen things that merely work

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The Model Launch Bar

With probabilistic products, the PM — not the scientist — decides what accuracy is good enough to ship.

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Leadership5 steps

The Org Chart With Your Name On It

Win the promotion by solving your boss's org problem, not by asking for your next title

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The Path to the C-Suite

Five career levers plus a work ethic that compound you into an executive

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The Product Strategy Stack

Separate mission, strategy, product strategy, roadmap, and goals into five layers you can define top-down and debug bottom-up.

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The Roadmap Is a Story, Not a Spreadsheet

Lead with themes and a narrative; link out to the systems for the granular how

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The Same-Day Prototype Validation Loop

Idea in the morning, real users testing by afternoon, decision by evening

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Strategy4 steps

The Shiny Object Trap (Problem-First AI)

A regular PM ships the right product; an AI PM solves the right problem.

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Communication3 steps

The Strategy-Isn't-Done-Without-Wireframes Rule

Treat a strategy doc like a house blueprint: it isn't complete until wireframes show what the product looks like when the strategy is built.

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The Technology Wave Specialization Ladder

Ratchet down on a new technology while it's still weird — teardown, no-code, then fun build

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The Three Cs of Accelerating Word-of-Mouth

Right people, right content, right communities to amplify organic growth

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The Three Flavors of AI Product Management

Map any AI PM role into one of three types to target the right skills and job.

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The Three Ingredients of Hypergrowth

Beloved product, viral word-of-mouth, and the ability to ride the lightning

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The Time-Boxed First 90 Days

Build context 5x faster, leave a plan behind, and don't spend trust you haven't banked

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The Word-of-Mouth Machine PMF Test

Real product-market fit is organic pull, not award-winning launch spikes

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The Zone of Genius Calendar Audit

Bucket last quarter's calendar by joy, then ask what only you can do

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Think It, Build It, Ship It, Tweak It

Four product phases where spend rises stage by stage — so you must retire risk before the money starts.

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Three-Model Triangulation

Apply three different mental models to a problem; agreement across them sharply raises your odds of being right.

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Entrepreneurship6 steps

Treat Your Course Like a Product

Hypothesise the audience, interview them, iterate the ICP, and run three weeks — not one.

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Waiting vs. Wandering: The IC PM Operating Model

Bring energy, wander into the unknown while others wait, and amplify signal with AI.

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